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How to disconnect MS-Teams team from their respective SharePoint site
Hi All,
Currently I am working in a project where the entire work has been implemented on the SharePoint Teams site created by MS Teams. Now we want to disconnect the site from MS Teams to restrict access to the site content randomly by any new user.
As I came across different blogs, following are few ways we can restrict the access to the site.
1. Implement O365 Group Policy
2. Implement Teams Creation/Deletion Policy
But is there any other way out which can disconnect the SharePoint site from the corresponding Team inside MS Teams. So that we do not need to add new policy.
Our objective is to restrict new user/guest user access to the SharePoint site and also to block accidental deletion of the Teams.
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- If you delete the team from the Teams Admin Center, the SharePoint site and M365 Group remain. You can then manage the SharePoint site like any other modern Teams site. Please test in your tenant to make sure the default settings have not changed.
If you delete the team from the Teams app, everything is deleted. This also happens if you delete the SharePoint site that backs the team.
By default, owners can delete the team from the app. This setting would need to be changed in by policy.
If this solves your issue, please mark it as the answer/solution. Thank you.Don Kirkham Deleting the Team from the Admin Center deletes the M365 group.
- This seems very dangerous to me. I have created Teams channels for my SharePoint sites just so that users can easily find the sites. I had no idea that this link would have such repercussions. Is there somewhere we can request that Microsoft does not delete the group and the SharePoint site when deleting the team?
- Hi Don,
Have you tried those steps. For me it is the same. Everything got deleted including the group too.- Yes, I tested those steps as I was writing my reply. My tenant is brand new, so no defaults have been changed. I also tested it in another tenant just now.
So, if you delete a team in the Teams Admin center, the SharePoint site is also being deleted? If so, I don't know of a way to change that behavior.
