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Microsoft

Mar 28, 2017

New feature: Recover deleted Office 365 Group via PowerShell

If you've deleted an Office 365 group, it's now retained by default for a period of 30 days. Within that period, you can now restore the group and its associated apps and data via a new PowerShell cm...

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Ronald Knaap

Copper Contributor

Mar 30, 2017

I've been testing with this (long awaited) feature and when I restore a deleted group, it doesn't re-appear in my Outlook 2016 client nor in the web client

When I search the group in the web client, I'm able to find and access it but it still won't show up in my list of groups...

It has been approx 24 hours since I restored the group btw.

Am I missing something?

Paul Cunningham

Iron Contributor

Mar 30, 2017

Ronald Knaap during my testing I noticed delays as well. In my case the user got a "Something has changed etc etc and you must restart Outlook" popup. After restarting Outlook the Groups appeared.