Access and manage your archived items

All of your archived teams and groups, and their content, can be found on the Archive page.

Open the archive details of a team or group to perform a full restore, download archived files and folders, move content to OneDrive for Business, and more.

Index

• How to access your archive
• Manage your archived items
  • At any time
  • Within 30 days of archiving a team or group
  • More than 30 days after archiving a team or group
• If your license expires

How to access your archive

1. Select Archive from the sidebar to access your archived teams and groups.
2. Choose between your tenant's Teams or Team sites.
   You can sort the teams or groups by name, status, content size, and more from the Archive page.
3. To access the content of a specific team or group, select the team or group row to view its archive details.

Manage your archived items

From the archive details, you can perform the following actions:

• Access the description of the team or group.
• See whether the team or group was Public or Private.
• Review the membership of the team or group.
• View the most recent activities.

Within 30 days of archiving a team or group

• Perform a Full Restore and bring the archived team or group back to its original state with all its workspaces and memberships.
• Download a file or folder directly in your browser (2 GB max). If you archived multiple versions, the file downloaded will be the latest version.
• Copy a file or folder to a user's OneDrive for Business. If you archived multiple versions, this will copy all versions into your OneDrive.
• Delete an archived team or group indefinitely.*

Note: *When a team or group is deleted, it can be restored from your Microsoft 365 admin center within 30 days. After 30 days, the team or group and its content cannot be restored.

More than 30 days after archiving a team or group

If your license expires

Default ShareGate Azure storage

If you use the default ShareGate Azure storage and your ShareGate license expires, you can access your archive and move entire archived teams or groups to a OneDrive for Business for up to 90 days. 

After 90 days, ShareGate is not obligated to retain your data. For more information, see the ShareGate end user license, maintenance, and support agreement (Section 6.6). 

Custom Azure storage account

ShareGate stores your archived data in a format that only the application can read. If you use a custom Azure storage account and your ShareGate license expires, you can access your archive and move entire archived teams or groups to a OneDrive for Business for up to 90 days.

Following those 90 days, your content will remain secure in your Azure storage but will be unreadable. Renew your ShareGate license to regain access to the data.

Move content to OneDrive for Business

1. Log in to ShareGate Protect and select Archive from the sidebar.
   The number of days remaining for you to retrieve your content will be listed at the top of the page.
2. Click Copy to OneDrive and follow the prompts in the pop-up.