Microsoft 365 Groups or Teams Expiration and Renewal
Overview
Microsoft 365 Groups or Teams will now expire with 365 days of inactivity.
When a group expires, all associated resources and data are removed as well. This includes files, folders, email, calendar, chats, channels, and meeting recordings.
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How to Renew
Owners of an inactive Team or Group will receive an email and a Teams notification starting 30 days, 15 days, and 1 day prior to the Team or Group expiration date.
During this time, you can choose to renew the group for another 365 days by clicking the "Renew group" button in the email message.
You can also see your Team’s expiration date or renew it directly from Teams.
If your Team name has a red expiration icon next to it, then it'll expire in fewer than 30 days. Go to the Team name and select More options > Renew now.
In other cases, either select the notification to renew your Team, or go to your Team settings. Go to the team name and select More options > Manage team. Then select Settings > Team Expiration.
From there, you can select Renew now or just check for the team's expiration date.
Finally, you can reactivate the team or group by being active in one of the following applications:
SharePoint - View, edit, download, move, share, or upload files. (Viewing a SharePoint page doesn't count as an action for automatic renewal.)
Outlook - Join or edit group, read or write group message from the group, and like a message (Outlook on the web).
Teams - Visit a Teams channel.
Forms - View, create, or edit forms, or submit a response to a form.
If there is no activity prior to the expiration date or the group is not manually renewed, the Team or Group will be deleted.
Restoring Expired M365 Groups and Teams
We can restore deleted Teams and M365 groups up to 30 days after their expiration. Anything that has been expired for more than 30 days has been permanently deleted and cannot be restored.