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Nip17
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Jan 19, 2021

Team Retention policy

Hi All, Can someone please help me to understand the following. When you delete a MS Team it can be restore by going to the group portal and restore from there. This will restore the full MS Team....
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VasilMichev
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Jan 19, 2021

You are not going to be able to do a one-click restore, retention is not a backup solution. The underlying O365 Group will transition into "inactive" state, data will be kept but only for compliance/eDiscovery purposes, and will not be accessible by clients/end users.

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Nip17
Brass Contributor
Jan 19, 2021

VasilMichev 

Thanks for your reply. But even if we use a third party backup system I dont think we can restore the whole team as it is , isn't it? Specially chat and message store in differnt mail boxes and file stored in SharePoint and recording stored in agin sharepoint and ondrive.  

So I m not sure even with a third party backup we can restore a deleted team as it is after 30 days, Do you know any product? 

 

As you have mnetioned with native M365 retention we have to use Get-RecoverableItems to check the group mail box folder and then use e-discovery for more anaysis and get the deleted items individually. 

Thanks.

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