With the Inactivity detection policy, you can set a threshold for the amount of time a team or group can be inactive before action needs to be taken.
If a team or group has been inactive for longer than the set time period, a ShareGate Teams chatbot notification or email is automatically sent to the owner. From the notification, the owner can choose to keep, delete, or archive their inactive team or group.
Note: When you turn on the Inactivity detection policy, it applies to teams and groups that will become inactive in the future. For information on how to clean up teams and groups that are currently inactive, see Ask owners about inactivity.
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Prerequisites
- The Inactive detection policy is automated, as in step (7) below.
- Teams or groups that are inactive for longer than your defined period will become present in your tenant.
- Optional: An Azure storage account has been set up.
Note: The option to archive a team or group is only available if you have set up an Azure storage account to store your data. For more information, see Archive overview.
How to
When you turn on your Inactivity detection policy, all teams and groups in your environment are included in ShareGate's detection. You can use purpose tags to apply custom inactivity thresholds to specific teams and groups.
Set up the Inactivity detection policy
The policy is used for all teams and groups that will become inactive in the future and that do not have a purpose tag.
To set up your policy:
- Open Protect.
- Select Policies from the sidebar.
- Expand the Inactivity detection section.
- Click in the After X days field.
- Use the up and down arrows, or enter the number of days teams and groups can be inactive in your environment.
- The default inactivity threshold is 90 days.
- Click anywhere outside the field to save your choice.
- Toggle on Ask owners automatically for the inactive policy.
- Use the radio buttons to set Microsoft Teams chatbot or Email as your preferred Communications method.
Create an inactivity threshold for purpose tags
Using purpose tags, you can set a custom inactivity threshold based on a team or group's business purpose. If a team or group with a purpose tag is inactive for longer than the time you set, the owner will receive a notification to take action.
For example, a departmental group may not need its activity verified as often as a time-sensitive project that can be archived as soon as it is finished.
To create an inactivity threshold for purpose tags, see Create and edit purpose tags.