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Navishkar Sadheo
Jan 22, 2019Steel Contributor
Distribution group usage
Hi All Hope everyone is well. I am hoping someone here can assist me. Is there any way I can get a report in Office 365 that will tell me when last a distribution group was used? I have been task...
VasilMichev
Jan 22, 2019MVP
There is no such report, you will have to go over the message trace events and find out when the last time a message was sent to a given group. Which might be a problem, considering the message trace events are kept for less than a month.
In addition you might want to take a look at Tony's take on producing such report for O365 Groups/Teams: https://www.petri.com/identifying-obsolete-office-365-groups-powershell
- Navishkar SadheoJan 22, 2019Steel ContributorThanks Vasil. Guess I have to look at a 3rd party product like Promodag then. Is there no way to extend the duration the message tracking logs are kept.
- TonyRedmondJan 22, 2019MVP
There's no way to extend the retention period. One of the things you learn soon about a cloud service is that the provider sets the rules and you have to obey. If you want to keep data for longer, you must copy it from Office 365 and store it somewhere like Splunk.
- Navishkar SadheoJan 22, 2019Steel ContributorThanks Tony.