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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 an...
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.
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.
- 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 losskevinmcbeth 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.
I have just encountered this problem, I went to https://outlook.office.com/people/group/deleted but the Teams Group does not show there either..
All my colleagues were using it, but the suddenly about an hour ago it just vanished for all of us.
I have managed to restore my colleagues access to files stored on SharePoint, using Excel. But that doesn't solve the problem for staff who have never access those files. We actually used a lot of Private Channels, so not sure how to access those SharePoint locations
