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Recovering a deleted Team and its data

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Recovering a deleted Team and its data

Runbook for restoring a deleted Microsoft Teams team: the group restore that does the work, the 24-hour wait, what returns, and the options when it's too late.

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Step 0: find out what actually happened

"Our Team disappeared" has four common causes, and only one of them is deletion.

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Step 1: check the 30-day clock

Deleted groups are soft-deleted for 30 days. Look in Entra admin center → Groups → Deleted groups, or Teams admin center → Teams → Deleted teams (which is the same list, filtered). If it is there, you have a restore. If…

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Step 2: restore the group

From the Teams admin center, select the deleted team and choose Restore. From Entra: Deleted groups → select → Restore. From PowerShell:

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Step 3: wait, and set expectations

This is the step that generates the follow-up ticket. The group, its SharePoint site, files and mailbox come back within minutes. The Team itself can take up to 24 hours to reappear in the Teams client. In practice it i…

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The far side of 30 days

The group is permanently gone. The Team's chat history — which lives in the group mailbox and in the Teams substrate — is gone with it, and no Microsoft support path restores it. What may still exist:

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Preventing the next one

Turn on the Teams deletion audit alert (an alert policy on TeamDeleted) so you know the day it happens rather than on day 31. Keep at least two owners per Team. And if channel history matters to the business, put a rete…

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