Prevent owner from deleting Team
We should be able to lock Team / Office 365 group from being deleted by Group owner.
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Phil Hemingway
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When it was just a SharePoint site, a site owner had the ability to delete the site, but it wasn't a big deal because they had to intentionally go into site settings to do it, and they didn't work in an interface where the site was listed in their face every day, in a way they might want to 'unsubscribe' from sites when their list gets too long.
But now it's a team, an O365 group, and a SharePoint site... and that executive who wanted to be an owner but really isn't engaged in team ownership, well he's looking at his Teams interface and he's not so concerned about this one team anymore. So he clicks "delete team" to get it out of his list, and he doesn't know he just scheduled the O365 group and the SharePoint site for immediate deletion... he didn't even know the SharePoint site had anything to do with the team... his group wasn't really using the team side, they were just used to working out of SharePoint.
Long story short, I had to restore the site from the deleted sites bin in SharePoint. And certainly the culprit wasn't forthcoming with the fact he screwed up... I had to spend too much time going through the audit logs to uncover how it happened. Then I had to call him out.
This could all be avoided by granularly providing a "delete site" specific permission level which could be applied to team/site owners, restricting their ability to delete the site/team.
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Beat
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it is very bad that owners can delete a Team group
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Dan Shenk-Evans
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Deleting a team deletes the SharePoint site and the Group. This is far too much power given to the owner of the Team. There needs to be a setting to prevent this, at least on a team-by-team basis, because delegating ownership of specific teams to subject matter experts is important, but gives too much power to accidentally delete.
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Watson
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Acho muito importante a opção de impedir o owner de excluir um grupo ou equipe do teams.
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Rob
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we need this
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Ruud
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The best option, for now, is to set up an alert, so you can restore the Office 365 Group as described here https://lazyadmin.nl/office-365/prevent-team-deletion/
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Anonymous
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We need this too as we do not want Teams to be deleted from a Risk perspective.
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David Savall
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It is very important to enable this feature especially in educational environments
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Johnny Boy
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This would be very welcom. Every Project is a team at our company.
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JeffZ
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This is a feature we could greatly benefit from.
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AndyB
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Yes teachers are deleting teams rather than remove themselves from the team, would be good to lock the team from deletion.
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Anonymous
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This is a big issue that Team Owner delete the group and We has no option to find out who is that person.
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Rob Melnick
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We just got smoked by this ,, MS,, this has hole has to be plugged quickly.. Just make it happen already.
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Anonymous
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Plus one on this
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Anonymous
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I strongly agree!
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Grant Hannaford
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Strongly agree.
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Ulrik Sieverts
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This should be an option.
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Anonymous
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We want to archive project spaces synced with the corresponding Team. In order to ensure auditability etc. Owners must not delete the Team after project closure.
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Anonymous
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Looking to move my organization to Utilize more than IM and Meetings within Teams, not sure why this wasn't an option from the start, +1 for data retention requirements.
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CC Adeyemo
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This would be especially helpful with all of the new calling features coming down the pipeline. If you transition to using Teams for call queues and Shared Voicemail, a deleted team could mess up the whole service.