Archiving, restoring, and deleting a team
The teams that you have in your Microsoft 365 environment may not be needed indefinitely. In this situation, there are several things you can do to ensure that stale or unused teams are removed and that only currently used teams remain active.
In this section, we will show you the options that you have to archive, restore, or fully delete teams.
Archiving a team
If any teams in your Microsoft 365 environment are no longer in active use, but there may be a future requirement to access it, then you have the option to archive that team. Once you archive a team, any files and conversations within it are changed to read-only.
To archive a team, follow these steps:
- Open Microsoft Teams and choose Teams from the left menu:
- At the bottom of the list of teams, next to Join or create a team, click on the cogwheel symbol: