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Groups, Sharepoint Data & Retention/Compliance Req's - Watch Out Before You Delete
Attending SPTechCon Austin, and it's been great thus far. Many good session. Happily, there's been quite a few sessions on Teams/Groups and I've learned a LOT. The local SP/O365 User Group host...
John, perfect timing!
Following today's announcement: Announcing the release of Threat Intelligence and Advanced Data Governance, plus significant updates to Advanced Threat Protection
You can now easily set a retention or deletion policy for an entire group (which will apply to the SP content): Overview of retention policies
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When the cascading delete happens the term "Team Site" and "Site Collection" mean the same thing. Both of those refer to the SharePoint site colleciton that is connected to the Group. So when a Group is deleted the connected SharePoint site is deleted.