Jun 19 2020
06:59 AM
- last edited on
Feb 01 2023
11:48 AM
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TechCommunityAP
Jun 19 2020
06:59 AM
- last edited on
Feb 01 2023
11:48 AM
by
TechCommunityAP
I am finding orphaned modern experience SharePoint sites, not connected to an O365 group. What I have determined is that a retention policy is in place for O365 groups, which I assume affects SharePoint as an associated resource. When in SharePoint admin, all of the sites note "This site has a compliance policy set to block deletion". My questions are as follows:
Jun 19 2020 09:23 AM
1) Depends on the policy scope, but generally speaking yes - if applied to a Group the policy covers both the mailbox and the SPO site
2) Yes, as different workloads handle retention differently. In particular, Exchange will turn the group mailbox into "inactive" one, but SPO will keep the site.
3) Again depends on the policy, but generally speaking yes
4) They can, but it depends on which "endpoint" they will use
5) The purpose of retention policy is compliance, and you definitely don't want end users to be able to bypass functionalities that relate to compliance
Jun 22 2020 04:15 AM
Thanks for the reply. The retention policy is very simple:
We have many O365 groups created for the purpose of Planner and not one of them have documents in the SPO sites. We have many test O365 groups that were created, that created SPO sites and none of it is needed because the group was a test. With the deletion of the O365 group, the empty SPO site remains.
If SPO keeps the site, while the mailbox and O365 group is deleted, how can I remove these orphaned SPO sites? Remove the policy, delete the SPO and then establish the policy again?
Jun 22 2020 08:11 AM
That's one way to go, you should also be able to exclude them from the policy while keeping it active.