Recover Office365 group

Recover Office365 group

Deleted Office365 group can be recovered using Azure AD powershell. The retention period is 30 days and group can be recovered if they are in soft deleted.Connect to your environment and search for the deleted group.
Get-AzureADMSDeletedGroup


  • Copy the ID of the group and use in the following syntax to recover the group.
Restore-AzureADMSDeletedDirectoryObject -Id "groupID"


The recovered group will be visible back in the EAC and also to group members.

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