M365 Admins
Teams & Sites
Archiving

Archiving

In the Archiving tab, you define what happens when a team is archived.

You find the tab under Groups > Templates: edit the organisation, edit the template, Archiving tab.

Under Actions, select one or more actions:

ActionDescription
Remove guestsRemoves all guests from the team.
Remove membersRemoves all members from the team.
Hide group from OutlookHides the group's email address in the global address list and in Outlook.
Mark as closedMarks the team as closed (greyed out) in the app.
Archive TeamArchives the team using Microsoft Teams archiving.
Set sites to readonlySets the team's site and the sites of private and shared channels to read-only for owners and members.
Remove documents version historyRemoves the version history of documents in standard and private channels.
Delete recycle bin contentsEmpties the recycle bin.

With Replace owners, you replace all owners with a specific user on archiving. Optionally, a webhook notifies you about the team.archive event.

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