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kevinmcbeth
Copper Contributor
Aug 27, 2021

Restore/Recover Deleted Team

Hello Everyone,

First time here. I am a teacher. Apparently I deleted my TEAM. Not sure how. My IT department says they can't restore it, because 'I created the TEAM myself' and added the members and it's content/pages, etc... If the system created the TEAM and then I had entered the pages/content they could restore it. So I am left to figure it out on my own or start from scratch.

 

When I enter into OneNote and click my list of Notebooks, the Notebook appears with it's Sharepoint location, but when you select to open it, it says '404 file not found'.

When I go through TEAMS, and select my available TEAMs it does not appear and it also does not come up when searched.

On my phone the in OneNote the Notebook is fully there, with all tabs/folders and my students from last year, but when you select anything to open, they are all blank. 

 

Everyone is stumped. My entire year of virtual lessons and planning is lost. Any help or suggestions would be terrific. 

 

Thank you,

Kevin

  • pvanberlo's avatar
    pvanberlo
    Aug 27, 2021

    kevinmcbeth It doesn't matter who created the team, it's always backed by a Microsoft 365 Group. If they cannot find the group in the 'recycle bin', then unfortunately it appears the group was probably 'hard deleted' already. Have a look here to see if you can still find it. Theoretically you should also be able to restore Microsoft 365 Groups you owned.

     

    Some resources linked to a group might be recoverable for a longer period of time. Your administrator will have to look for those resources in various places though. The associated SharePoint site may still be available in the SharePoint recycle bin etc.

  • crosbylee's avatar
    crosbylee
    Copper Contributor

    To restore a team is as follows 
    1. You must be an owner of the Team

    2. Log into Microsoft 365's Website

    3. Look on the left and side of the page for the "People" app and click it. 

    4. Now outlook should pop up in the web browswer and you should see a page where the content of the page is about contacts.

    5. Go to the left side of this page and look for Groups and click the Groups icon.

    6. A page should pop up with all of the Associated groups that you are in. Find the group you are trying to recover and click it.

    7. It should come up with a page saying the group has been deleted and it will give an expiration date on when it will be deleted forever. Below that is a button that says "Restore".

    8. YOUR welcome!!! kevinmcbeth 

  • Leland Usher's avatar
    Leland Usher
    Brass Contributor
    Hello, I just restored the deleted SharePoint site and that restoration process told me that the associated Teams App would also be restored.
  • hhbadarin's avatar
    hhbadarin
    Brass Contributor

    kevinmcbeth 

    Your IT can always recover deleted teams by restoring the Microsoft 365 Groups that backs them, here's a Powershell code i wrote that gets the job done:
    Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup -Top 10000| Export-Csv -Path "E:\DeletedTeams.csv" -Encoding UTF8
    $DG_list = Import-Csv E:\DeletedGID.csv
    foreach ($DGmember in $DG_list) {
    Restore-AzureADMSDeletedDirectoryObject –Id $DGmember.GroupID
    }
    *The first line will export the recent 10000 deleted office 365 groups. You can always change this number. 
    *The rest of the code will iterate over items in another csv file named DeletedGID.csv that has one column with the deleted groups ID (GroupID)

  • pvanberlo's avatar
    pvanberlo
    Steel Contributor

    You can usually recover any team by restoring the Microsoft 365 Group that backs it. These are kept in a ‘soft deleted’ state for 30 days after which they’re permanently removed. This might require the help of an administrator though. So ask your IT department to restore the group. The group usually has the same name as the team.

    • kevinmcbeth's avatar
      kevinmcbeth
      Copper Contributor
      Thanks Paul,
      This is exactly what my admin team explained to me. However, when trying to do this, they were unable to just that. They explained that it was because I created the TEAM. I wonder if the TEAM was deleted more than 30 days ago and thus that is why they couldn't do it.
      I have no idea how/when it was deleted.
      I am at a loss
      • pvanberlo's avatar
        pvanberlo
        Steel Contributor

        kevinmcbeth It doesn't matter who created the team, it's always backed by a Microsoft 365 Group. If they cannot find the group in the 'recycle bin', then unfortunately it appears the group was probably 'hard deleted' already. Have a look here to see if you can still find it. Theoretically you should also be able to restore Microsoft 365 Groups you owned.

         

        Some resources linked to a group might be recoverable for a longer period of time. Your administrator will have to look for those resources in various places though. The associated SharePoint site may still be available in the SharePoint recycle bin etc.

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