Restore a deleted Microsoft 365 group

If you delete a group, by default, it's retained for 30 days. This 30-day period is considered a "soft-delete" because you can still restore the group. After 30 days, the group and its associated contents are permanently deleted and can't be restored.

When a group is restored, the following content is restored:

• Microsoft Entra Microsoft 365 Groups object, properties, and members
• Group's e-mail addresses
• Exchange Online shared Inbox and calendar
• SharePoint Online team site and files
• OneNote notebook
• Planner
• Teams
• Viva Engage group and group content (If the Microsoft 365 group was created from Viva Engage)
• Power BI Classic workspace

Note

This article describes restoring only Microsoft 365 groups. All other groups cannot be restored once deleted.

Restore a group

Outlook

If you're the owner of a Microsoft 365 group, you can restore the group yourself in Outlook on the web by following these steps:

1. On the deleted groups page, select the Manage groups option under the Groups node, and then choose Deleted.

2. Select the Restore tab next to the group you want to restore.

If the deleted group doesn't appear here, contact an administrator.

Admin center

If you're a groups administrator, you can restore a deleted group in the Microsoft 365 admin center:

1. Go to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
2. Expand Groups, and then select Deleted groups.
3. Select the group that you want to restore, and then select Restore group.

Note

In some cases, it may take as long as 24 hours for the group and all of its data to be restored.

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