Hi all - I wanted to share a couple of new features we are enabling on the Site information panel (accessible from the gear menu) that site owners will soon be able to take advantage of: Change the site icon: For group connected sites this will update the icon for the group and reflect in other group workloads Delete site: This will allow site owners to delete site. For group connected sites, this will trigger the deletion of the group as well. Owners will be prompted with a confirmation dialog requiring an explicit acknowledgement via checkbox that content will be deleted before proceeding. We plan to start rolling this feature out in the next couple of weeks, starting with First Release. As always, questions or comments welcome below! Thanks, Tejas

First question anyway to turn off the delete option. Since for compliance and retention, we certainly do not want site just deleted. I am sure many others will feel the same. Especially for group sites, since there is no way to reduce a group owners permission levels from full control.Second, if someone deletes a site anyway to alert the administrator?

I sure hope that there will be a way to recover Deleted sites and the associated group.

Hi Tejas-- any chance this information panel will be extensible? We'd love to surface some of our added functionality for site management through an interface like this rather than having customers visit 2 different UI elements.

is there a way to restrict this to only allow the person to change the site title / description and prevent deletion?

Hi Tejas-- we have built a system with additional layers of governance for a site. Currently, for classic mode sites, we plop an App part on the page with this functionality, but we would like to move to a more integrated way of showing this info-- especially for modern sites. For example, here is a graphic of our site card. There is a tab that shows ownership info, a tab that shows site metadata, a tab showing policy and automated lifecycle status and a tab for launching additional managed self-service requests for the site...Policy TabRequest TabOwnership TabMetadata Tab

Coming soon - New capabilities from Site information panel (Change site icon and delete site)

John Peluso
Iron Contributor
Jul 13, 2017
Hi Tejas-- any chance this information panel will be extensible? We'd love to surface some of our added functionality for site management through an interface like this rather than having customers visit 2 different UI elements.
- Deleted
  Jul 17, 2017
  Ditto. We have some information we manage about the site through a custom feature we've built in house. Being able to add that to the Site Information panel would be great!
  - Tejas Mehta
    Microsoft
    Aug 04, 2017
    Interesting - are you looking to simply display read-only information? Tell us more about what/how you'd do.
Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Jul 13, 2017
I sure hope that there will be a way to recover Deleted sites and the associated group.
- Maarten Eekels
  MVP
  Jul 13, 2017
  Dean_Gross wrote:
  I sure hope that there will be a way to recover Deleted sites and the associated group.
  There already is. Unfortunately only through PowerShell at the moment, but it works well: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Restore-a-deleted-Office-365-Group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54
  
  Still agree with the comments that we should be able to prevent deletion though.
  - Philip Worrell
    Steel Contributor
    Jul 13, 2017
    You have only 30 days to recover. After that it is gone and no way of knowing when a group is deleted.
Deleted
Jul 13, 2017
Great stuff!
S_S_Ramana
Bronze Contributor
Jul 13, 2017
is there a way to restrict this to only allow the person to change the site title / description and prevent deletion?
Philip Worrell
Steel Contributor
Jul 13, 2017
First question anyway to turn off the delete option. Since for compliance and retention, we certainly do not want site just deleted. I am sure many others will feel the same. Especially for group sites, since there is no way to reduce a group owners permission levels from full control.

Second, if someone deletes a site anyway to alert the administrator?
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Jul 12, 2017
Cool updates for Modern SPO Sites!!!
- Drew Madelung
  MVP
  Jul 13, 2017
  Cool stuff!

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