Why was my site deleted by a user called AAD to SharePoint Sync? #M365AMA
In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:
“We encountered a strange issue whereby a SharePoint site was deleted by an user called: AAD to SharePoint Sync. We discovered this through the audit log in the Compliance Center. Anyone else ever had this issue and knows what that user is?”
Check out the discussion here:
Participating in this discussion were:
- Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet
- Michelle Gilbert @MichellesUtopia
- Mike Nelson @mikenelsonIO
Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:
- Discussion on this issue over on Tech Community [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365/aad-to-sharepoint-sync-deleted-the-website-twice/m-p/2009156]
- Use policies for site closure and deletion, via Microsoft Support [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-policies-for-site-closure-and-deletion-a8280d82-27fd-48c5-9adf-8a5431208ba5]
- MVP Patrick Lamber (@patricklamber) blogged about this [https://www.nubo.eu/Groupified-SharePoint-Online-site-being-deleted-without-a-properly-associated-group/]