Delete Microsoft 365 Groups

Owned by Meera S Nair
Last updated: Oct 02, 2023 by Ashley Mattingly
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Once the group has outlived its intended purpose, owners have the capability to delete Office 365 groups.

Please note that when a group is deleted, it permanently removes all the services that comes with the group including conversations, files, notebook, planner tasks etc. If the group was deleted by mistake, please contact TSC to recover the group within 30 days of deletion.

From Outlook client

  1. Under Groups, select your group to be deleted

  2. From the Menu bar, select Edit Group

  3. You can now click Delete group button in the lower left corner of the window.

Select I understand that all group content will be deleted > Delete.

From Outlook on the web

  1. Log in to Office 365 at email.uconn.edu. Enter your NetID and NetID password. On the O365 portal page, click on Outlook. 

  2. In the navigation pane on the left, click the down arrow by Groups.

  3. Under Groups in the left navigation pane, select your group.

  4. At the top of the page, select … > Settings

  5. Select Edit group

  6. At the bottom of the Edit group window, select Delete group

  7. Select the check box next to I understand that all group content will be deleted and select Delete.

From Outlook mobile app

  1. Open the Outlook mobile app.

  2. Select Groups from the folder pane.

  3. Tap the name of the group that you want to delete

  4. Tap the group name to navigate to the Group details page

  5. Tap Edit

  6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and tap Delete Group.

  7. To confirm the deletion, type "delete," and then tap Delete Group.