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Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

kevinerikwhite — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:47:36 GMT

We are hoping to clean up the numerous duplicate Power BI Workspaces that were created when everyone was allowed to create a workspace on a whim. We did it to one Workspace and found out that it deleted the entire 365 group and associated sharepoint and other files they wanted to keep.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Is there a way to simply delete the workspace but keep the Microsoft 365 group and everything that goes along with that?

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

kevinerikwhite — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 19:05:36 GMT

Anyone have anything that could help me?

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

ptacquet — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:18:40 GMT

Any ideas ?

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

JSnow — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:40:31 GMT

I have the same question. I can't seem to find a way to do this.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

phyberoptx — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:48:16 GMT

I have been trying to find this for over a year. A workspace was created for every office group, but not every office group needs a workspace.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:53:40 GMT

Got bit by this today. If anyone has more information on this, please post it.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

Veles — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:35:19 GMT

I've been looking into this and it seems if you have converted the O365 group into a Team, the Team and SharePoint will still remain if you delete the Power BI workspace. However it looks like the Outlook group will be deleted, as will the Stream group.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

mmerchak — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:46:02 GMT

This would definitely be a change from last fall, because I deleted workspaces that were created by O365 groups that were auto-created by making a Team in Teams. And all of those Teams were DEFINITELY deleted. I think I lost a couple years of my life when I found that out.

Luckily infastructure was able to restore them. But I definitely almost had a heart attack.

I think in the hopefully near-ish future, you can convert the old workspaces to the new workspace experience and then delete them. At least this is what I am hoping with happen.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

johanjsc — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:48:37 GMT

Is this planned Microsoft? A way to clean up my PowerBI site, and not needing to see all of my O365Groups which dont have any PowerBI at all.

I want to use only new workspaces, and delete the PBI part of the groups.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

MB57630 — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:14:44 GMT

Has anyone figured this out??

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

cgeraeds — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 14:57:17 GMT

If it's no more than 30 days ago you deleted the workspace it's possible to retreive the Sharepoint site.

More information on how to do this can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/office365/admin/create-groups/restore-deleted-group?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-us%252farticle%252frestore-a-deleted-office-365-group-b7c66b59-657a-4e1a-8aa0-8163b1f4eb54&view=o365-worldwide

This way the Power BI workspace will remain deleted and only the Sharepoint site and documents etc. that are included will be accessible again.

Re: Deleting a Power BI Workspace but keeping the Office 365 Group

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:22:22 GMT

Creating a classic workspace binds it to an O365 group. New workspaces are not linked (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-create-the-new-workspaces). Convert the classic workspace to a new workspace, delete the workspace to leave the O365 group, SharePoint site and Teams team unaffected:

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