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cfiessinger
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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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KerryLambert
Iron Contributor
May 11, 2017

I tested the restore process and found that everything came back pretty quickly.  I could access the restored Group in Outlook on the Web almost immediately.  The SharePoint Team Site took a little longer to restore, maybe 5-10 minutes later.

 

The only service that hasn't restored yet is Teams.  Do we have to wait even longer for Teams?  I re-connected Teams to the Group to see if the content was there, it was not.  Should the Team automatically reconnect to the Group after restore?  Will it still restore the content even after I've re-connected Teams to the Group?

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Jerry Meyer
Iron Contributor
May 17, 2017

Teams will also be restored, This will take about the same amount of time as the SharePoint Library

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    Chris Cundy
    Copper Contributor
    May 18, 2017

    I've tested this and yes the group and files have restored but not the team I had setup in teams

    the size of the group was tiny, probably only 2mb worth of files.

    Does it just generally take quite a while for a teams team recreate itself?

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