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Active vs Inactive Office 365 Groups
In order to do some clean-up for our Office 365 Groups we want to make sure that the groups that migt be considered in-active are trully that way.
According to this https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-Reports-in-the-new-Admin-Center-SharePoint-site-usage-4ecfb843-e5d5-464d-8bf6-7ed512a9b213?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1:"Last activity date (UTC) refers to the date of the last time file activity was detected on the site."
We are not sure if a group would be active if:
1. There were conversations only (no files uploads at this period);
2. The team used only Planner;
3. Only the OneNote was updated at this period,
Which one of these users - groups interactions would trigger activity and which are considered "hidden' activities.
- Currently there is no way to know if a group is active / inactive in the way you describe but this is something tha could come in the future so stay tunned
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- With Graph API beta, Get-MgReportOffice365GroupActivityDetail in powershell will return last activity date
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
Have you seen this from TonyRedmond: https://www.itunity.com/article/identifying-obsolete-office-365-groups-powershell-3533cfiessinger
The (very good) article has been relocated and updated to
https://petri.com/identifying-obsolete-office-365-groups-powershell/Thank you for sharing this article! I did not know about it ... It helps!
- In addition to the three items, the other one would be
4. When only Power BI dashboards are updated (completely missed it, but I think this is a valid scenario as well)
If there only certain actions that are recorded as activities, we would inform our users to make sure that they have these updates, so the Group will be active all the time.
Thank you!- Currently there is no way to know if a group is active / inactive in the way you describe but this is something tha could come in the future so stay tunned
Thank you! Knowing that this is something to conseder in future helps.
