Forum Discussion
restore group.. urgent!
- Nov 07, 2016
I don't think there is. The roadmap shows that the feature is under development.
-Sonia
Hi,
I have just spent most of the morning being shuffled between the SharePoint and Exchange teams to get a similar answer to yourself in regards to what Data Loss Protection we have with groups. I know that I can put a group on Discovery Hold and preserve all items within a group, but only if the group is still active. I then tried a preservation policy which wouldn't find the group mailbox, but did find the SharePoint site. However MS have informed me that this will not work with the old Site Collections associated with group as they are hidden. It will work when they switch to Modern Team sites, but again only whilst the group is still active. I know that Soft Deleted recovery of groups is coming (Like many Group features we may get it in this decade!) but this is delaying us from rolling out groups past our pilot phase. I cannot fathom how and wy MS decided to firstly give a Group Owner the ability to delete a group without an Administrator having the ability to recover the group. We dont allow users to delete Shared Mailboxes for example when they are granted "Owner" rights, so why do this with groups? I have been told that MS will be able to restore Groups if you give them the sharepoint url, but until I see that written in stone I will take it with a pinch of salt! I understand that they are trying to roll out as many features for groups (Which will transform the way that users collaborate btw), but please give us Admins the ability to make sure that our users are protected.