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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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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.

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?
- Maarten Eekels
  MVP
  Jul 13, 2017
  Cian Allner wrote:
  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?
  Yes, you can set up an alert policy for that in the Audit Log Search:
- Philip Worrell
  Steel Contributor
  Jul 13, 2017
  Plenty of backup solutions out there.
  Just something else for customers to think about
  Many won't bother with all the redundancy Microsoft has in place.
  
  Though setting alert in the security and compliance centre is something to look into.