Purpose
Organizations with many teams often have teams that are never actually used. This can happen for several reasons, including product experimentation, short-term team collaboration, or team owners leaving the organization. Over time, such teams can accumulate and burden tenant resources. Because of this, we have an automatic expiration policy in place.
Expiration Policy
Any unused team for a year will automatically expire to curb the number of unused teams. A team owner receives a notification for team renewal 30 days, 15 days, and 1 day before the team's expiration date. The team owner can stop the team from expiring using the instructions below when the team owner receives the notification. If the team owner does not renew the team and there is no further activity until the end of the expiration policy, the team is put in a "soft-deleted" state, which means it can be restored within the next 30 days. If this happens to your team and you need it restored, please contact the OIT Help Desk.
Renewing Your Team
- Select More options icon (...) and then select the option Manage Team from the menu.
- Select the Settings tab and open the drop-down for Team Expiration.
- This will show you the date that the specified Team will expire.
- To renew your Team for a whole year, click the Renew Now button, and a message will appear informing you of the new Team expiration date.
