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JakobRohde
Iron Contributor
Dec 03, 2019
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Excluding a team from retention policy

We have included everything in retention policies, i.e. Groups, SharePoint, Exchange and Team channel messages and Teams chats. Now I want to exclude a team in order to delete it entirely, including ...
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    JakobRohde
    Dec 04, 2019

    Let me clarify what I have found out:

     

    I made an exception in the retention policy, excluding the Office 365 group in question. That allowed me to delete the team and this in turn resulted in the site and the groups also was deleted. It might take a while though and sometimes it might also fail, I guess. 

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Magnus Andersson
Brass Contributor
Dec 03, 2019

VasilMichev You sure the site isn't deleted? https://support.office.com/en-us/article/delete-a-team-c386f91b-f7e6-400b-aac7-8025f74f8b41#ID0EAABAAA=Desktop

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VasilMichev
MVP
Dec 03, 2019

Fine, in theory it should be deleted 🙂 But in practice the process fails quite often. In my tenant, out of 25 sites with the Group#0 template, I have 10 orphaned ones, remaining after the deletion of the underlying group/team. 

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    JakobRohde
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 04, 2019

    Thank you for you answers. I deleted the team and the site was eventually deleted automatically. It just took some time.

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      JakobRohde
      Iron Contributor
      Dec 04, 2019

      Let me clarify what I have found out:

       

      I made an exception in the retention policy, excluding the Office 365 group in question. That allowed me to delete the team and this in turn resulted in the site and the groups also was deleted. It might take a while though and sometimes it might also fail, I guess. 

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