Mar 28 2017 09:16 AM - edited Mar 28 2017 09:21 AM
If you've deleted an Office 365 group, it's now retained by default for a period of 30 days. Within that period, you can now restore the group and its associated apps and data via a new PowerShell cmdlet. For additional information please go to https://aka.ms/groupssoftdelete.
Mar 28 2017 09:37 AM - edited Mar 28 2017 09:38 AM
woot!
Is there a way for admins to know if/when an Office 365 Group is deleted?
Mar 28 2017 09:42 AM - edited Mar 28 2017 09:43 AM
you can now write a script that notifies you on a regular basis for instance using this new cmdlet:
Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup | Sort-Object DisplayName| Format-Table Id, DisplayName, Description, Visibility
Mar 28 2017 12:56 PM
Mar 28 2017 01:08 PM
Mar 28 2017 01:29 PM
Mar 28 2017 02:02 PM
Mar 28 2017 02:06 PM
Mar 28 2017 07:42 PM
Mar 28 2017 08:00 PM
From the documentation:
"You can also permanently delete a soft-deleted group if you can't wait the 30 days for the retention period to expire for the content to be permanently deleted."
Mar 28 2017 08:11 PM
Mar 28 2017 08:29 PM
@Brent Cordis try this script
https://practical365.com/collaboration/groups/powershell-script-generate-reports-groups-office-365/
We'll be updating it to flag whether deleted groups are still recoverable as well, now that the new feature is available.
cc @Christophe Fiessinger
Mar 29 2017 03:10 AM
Awesome news, glad you finally relased this feature! Some more information on what happens when you soft-delete a group might be useful, for example can the group still receive mail, what happens if some group content is on hold (i.e. how it is handled in respect to all workloads; what happens if you try to hard-delete), etc.
Mar 29 2017 07:14 AM
Cool thanks for this great news
Mar 29 2017 03:13 PM
Mar 29 2017 10:09 PM - edited Mar 29 2017 10:39 PM
Mar 29 2017 10:09 PM - edited Mar 29 2017 10:39 PM
@Christophe Fiessinger I've been testing this and there seems to be some inconsistency, or perhaps just delays in how the restoration is processed in the back end.
The issues I'm noticing are:
It's inconsistent though. Two Teams (one private, one public, both with an admin and a single non-admin member) were deleted and restored without issue. Meanwhile others that I restored over an hour ago are still unable to be joined.
I haven't noticed any issues within Outlook or Planner though (other than the cases where the admin wasn't restored), this is all Teams issues.
Edit: eventually it seems they've come good again. Is everything I saw there just the expected/possible delay of up to 24 hours for the full restoration process to complete?
Mar 29 2017 10:16 PM
Mar 29 2017 10:40 PM
@Juan Carlos González Martín see my edited post above. Might not be anything more than just a delay with some of the apps being fully restored. Bit of a rough experience overall.
Mar 29 2017 10:46 PM
Mar 29 2017 11:50 PM
I've been testing with this (long awaited) feature and when I restore a deleted group, it doesn't re-appear in my Outlook 2016 client nor in the web client
When I search the group in the web client, I'm able to find and access it but it still won't show up in my list of groups...
It has been approx 24 hours since I restored the group btw.
Am I missing something?