Teams Retention

[blue-man]

If you have a retention policy in place does it allow you to restore a whole Team if it is deleted?

What about if a chat is edited can you restore previous versions?

Can you restore a full Team and all chats messages/documents if a retention policy is not in place?

[#2]

@blue-man 

No, Retention Policies don't allow you to restore Teams or data within Teams.  They are there to ensure that if a user deletes Teams data whilst within a retention period, then a copy pf the data is made and stored in a hidden SubstratesHolds folder in the group mailbox for the team.  For more info on this, take a look at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/retention-policies

[#3]

Thanks - so how would we restore a Team if it was deleted by accident?

[#4]

Ok found this https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/archive/blogs/uclobby/restore-deleted-teams-and-channels-from-micro...

So how long would a Team or channel be available for restoration after being deleted? 30 days?

[#5]

Yes it is 30 days as per -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/restore-deleted-group?view=o365-w...