How to Archive Groupless Workspaces

Last updated: March 30, 2026

Overview

Workspaces can sometimes get disconnected from their workspaces, and leave them only partially archived or deleted. 

This can happen in different ways, but a common example is when there's a retention policy applied to a workspace.  Orchestry cannot overrule retention policies when executing archival jobs, leaving you with a workspace that hasn't been fully archived or deleted.

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The 'History' tab in Workspace Details logs when a part of your workspace is prohibited from archival or deletion due to a M365 compliance policy

How to Archive Groupless Workspaces

  1. Locate your groupless workspaces in Orchestry using Recommendations or one of the built-in workspace report available in Orchestry.

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  1. From the Reports page, click a workspace title to open the Workspace Details page

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  1. Click the EDIT button for the 'Renewal/Archival' policy

  2. Set the 'Exclude from Archival' policy to NO

  3. Assign a new archival policy to the workspace

  4. Execute the archival policy by either FORCING it, or waiting for the next ETL crawl

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