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Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup vs. 'Get-UnifiedGroup -IncludeSoftDeletedGroups'
Yesterday I found the cause. There are 2 issues preventing the EXO and AAD cmdlets returning the same results for deleted groups.
- The time zone in AAD is UTC, EXO returns the results in the local time. So I changed the date filter for deleted groups in AAD to UTC.
- The main issue is Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup does not return all deleted groups by default (and shows not information the results are limited). The cmdlet provides an additional parameter All.
Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup -all:$true
-All
If true, return all group members. If false, return the number of objects specified by the Top parameterWithout the parameter Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup returns just 100 results and the date filter was not applied to all deleted groups in AAD.
I did the same tests, one for the last 5 days and one for 30 days. Both commands include now the same results.
@Tobias, what I meant was that the Get-UnifiedGroup cmdlet run with this parameter will return both active and deleted groups, which you can easily confirm if you remove the filter. We have the same situation with the Get-Mailbox cmdlets, however for it we also have the -InactiveMailboxOnly which will filter out any active mailboxes.
Now, having seen the full code in your screenshot, the Groups returned definitely match the soft-deleted criteria. So you should be seeing the same between Get-UnifiedGroup and Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup output. Which brings us to the other possible scenario, issue with the sync between ExODS and Azure AD, for which you should open a support case.