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Jeremy
Asked: 2020-03-31 17:55:17 +0800 CST

What happens to Teams chats/discussion when an AD user is deleted and re-added?

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I am experiencing mailbox issues with a user account in Office 365. My users are sync'd from my on-premise Active Directory using the Azure AD Connect application. I think I can resolve the issue by:

  • moving the on-premise user to an OU that is not sync'd to Azure
  • resync to Azure AD
  • completely delete the user in Azure AD
  • move the on-premise user back to its correct OU
  • resync Azure AD
  • reassign licenses

There is not much data associated with this user. There is no mailbox data or OneDrive files. There are, however, chats and discussions in Teams. Would the process listed above affect the chats/discussions in Teams for this user? Would the previous chats/discussions be attributed to the resync'd user account?

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1 Answers

  1. When deleted, the user's chats/conversations are lost, and the user is removed from all teams. Channel discussions are left intact, but they are not linked/attributed to the recreated user.

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