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Deleted Team still appearing in apps
I've administratively deleted a team (via the Teams admin center). It is no longer in the list of Teams there, however, it still appears to be fully live and visible across all the various apps for a...
- Well, I learned something. After several hours, the Team vanished. The unfortunate consequence of this latency is that it's not clear what has happened to the content posted by team members after I initiated the archive and deletion. I suspect its gone forever - it doesn't appear to be in the archive that I created right before deletion.
Well, I learned something. After several hours, the Team vanished. The unfortunate consequence of this latency is that it's not clear what has happened to the content posted by team members after I initiated the archive and deletion. I suspect its gone forever - it doesn't appear to be in the archive that I created right before deletion.
Groups get put in a 30 day recycle bin, you can restore the group and all content through the groups interface in OWA as an admin. It might be only groups you delete, can't remember, if that's the case you can do it via PowerShell.
If you delete Teams from the admin center it does in fact take some time, few hours sometimes to delete all the various artifacts of a office 365 group. I prefer deleting the Team from Teams itself as it seems to get removed faster for whatever reason.
Depending on how you have retention policies setup, you can keep the content of your Office 365 groups via SharePoint for longer periods of time etc. as well if you delete groups, the sites will stay around.
Anyway, here is article for restoring a group if you need it which will include the Team. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/restore-deleted-group?view=o365-worldwide
If you delete Teams from the admin center it does in fact take some time, few hours sometimes to delete all the various artifacts of a office 365 group. I prefer deleting the Team from Teams itself as it seems to get removed faster for whatever reason.
Depending on how you have retention policies setup, you can keep the content of your Office 365 groups via SharePoint for longer periods of time etc. as well if you delete groups, the sites will stay around.
Anyway, here is article for restoring a group if you need it which will include the Team. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/restore-deleted-group?view=o365-worldwide