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blue-man
May 06, 2020Iron Contributor
Teams Retention
If you have a retention policy in place does it allow you to restore a whole Team if it is deleted? What about if a chat is edited can you restore previous versions? Can you restore a full Te...
PeterRising
May 06, 2020MVP
No, Retention Policies don't allow you to restore Teams or data within Teams. They are there to ensure that if a user deletes Teams data whilst within a retention period, then a copy pf the data is made and stored in a hidden SubstratesHolds folder in the group mailbox for the team. For more info on this, take a look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/retention-policies
- blue-manMay 06, 2020Iron ContributorThanks - so how would we restore a Team if it was deleted by accident?
- blue-manMay 06, 2020Iron ContributorOk found this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/uclobby/restore-deleted-teams-and-channels-from-microsoft-teams
So how long would a Team or channel be available for restoration after being deleted? 30 days?- PeterRisingMay 06, 2020MVPYes it is 30 days as per -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/restore-deleted-group?view=o365-worldwide