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Hello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team
Hi everyone! I am the Group Engineering Manager for O365 groups. I will be encouraging more of my engineers to participate in this forum to help answer questions and share solutions. Let the...
Short term, we're releasing group activity reports in the Report center so you can do some self-directed pruning of obviously inactive, unloved groups. Expect this in the next month.
Later this year, we'll release time-based expiry where owners can reattest the use of their group to extend expiry. We won't release expiry until we release deletion recovery - so you can recover a group that's been undesirably expired.
Expiry's coming, which will be great. I recall hearing mutterings some time ago about "locking" a group. I've often seen groups used for projects, and it would be great to have functionality to allow groups to be closed (but not nuked) when they've served their purpose.
Is this in the works?