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Jul 12, 2017

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

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 t...

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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.
  - Cian Allner
    Silver Contributor
    Jul 13, 2017
    Is there any way of setting up an alert via Security & Compliance or by other means to flag a group/site deletion I'm wondering? Site administration activities and the Deleted group activity alert would that cover it?
    
    For after 30 days, is there where customers should invest in 3rd party backups solutions or should Office 365 have more built-in options?