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How long deleted items & site will stage in recycle bins
I think it's 93 days regardless of where it sits...
"In SharePoint Online, items are retained for 93 days from the time you delete them from their original location. They stay in the site Recycle Bin the entire time, unless someone deletes them from there or empties that Recycle Bin. In that case, the items go to the site collection Recycle Bin, where they stay for the remainder of the 93 days."
Unless someone executes a hard delete as described in the article above.
TimLB wrote:I think it's 93 days regardless of where it sits...
"In SharePoint Online, items are retained for 93 days from the time you delete them from their original location. They stay in the site Recycle Bin the entire time, unless someone deletes them from there or empties that Recycle Bin. In that case, the items go to the site collection Recycle Bin, where they stay for the remainder of the 93 days."
Unless someone executes a hard delete as described in the article above.
Thanks for the reply. so in general recycle bins for the site collections or the central admin recycle bin will keep deleted items (items,pages, document and site collections) for 93 days ?
second question. let say someone intentionally remove a site collection and then run this command Remove-SPODeletedSite to remove it from the central admin recycle bin.. then can we still contact Microsoft to recover this deleted site collection within 14 days?
john john Yes, so long as the Site Collection Administrator does not empty out the 2nd stage recycle bin. There are other cases where if the site exceeds quotas the oldest of the excess content will be purged from the recycle bin. And the second question is Yes as well 14 days from the time when the purge is executed, Microsoft has to refer to their backups.
Found documentation that describes the Recycle Bin a lot better than the previous link: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/restore-deleted-items-from-the-site-collection-recycle-bin-5fa924ee-16d7-487b-9a0a-021b9062d14b
