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Microsoft

Jul 21, 2016

Hello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team

Hi everyone! I am the Group Engineering Manager for O365 groups. I will be encouraging more of my engineers to participate in this forum to help answer questions and share solutions. Let the...

Office 365 Groups

Steven Collier

MVP

Jul 21, 2016

Hi Jim, is there any news or schedule about when we will see expiry for groups, and how it will work. As we are adopting groups at a rapid place we really need to start planning for the disposition plans.

Jim Van Eaton

Microsoft

Jul 21, 2016

Expiry for groups is in planning. It's one several things that we are currently working on for Groups Lifecycle management.

Eric Zenz if he wants to add more specifics.

Eric Zenz
Microsoft
Jul 22, 2016
Short term, we're releasing group activity reports in the Report center so you can do some self-directed pruning of obviously inactive, unloved groups. Expect this in the next month.

Later this year, we'll release time-based expiry where owners can reattest the use of their group to extend expiry. We won't release expiry until we release deletion recovery - so you can recover a group that's been undesirably expired.
- Steven Collier
  MVP
  Jul 22, 2016
  Thanks Eric. Will the group activity understand activity across any workload, e.g. conversations, files, planner, onenote ....
- Chris Brown
  Iron Contributor
  Jul 22, 2016
  Expiry's coming, which will be great. I recall hearing mutterings some time ago about "locking" a group. I've often seen groups used for projects, and it would be great to have functionality to allow groups to be closed (but not nuked) when they've served their purpose.
  
  Is this in the works?