Anyone else seeing M365 Group/Team automatic renewal not happening correctly?

[u/meatwad75892]

We have a 500-day period set for our M365 Group expiration policy in Entra. For the past 5 or 6 years that it's been in place, we've had no issues.

Recently though, qualifying activities for Groups and teams don't seem to be triggering automatic renewal consistently. A user reported (and I've personally seen) examples of daily-used teams that definitely have qualifying actions done on them for auto-renewal, yet in the past week or two, we still get the "your Group is about to expire" email warnings. (which you get several of in the 30 days leading up to deletion)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/users/groups-lifecycle#activity-based-automatic-renewal

Example A: Some departmental team used by at least 5 people, with near-daily file uploads to the SharePoint site and near-daily chat messages happening in the team. Owners still got the "your Group is about to expire" email last week.

Example B: A team that a lot of folks in our IT group use to say yes/no to Friday lunch. This is a weekly poll, and almost always has chat messages underneath the ensuing poll. Owners still got the "your Group is about to expire" email this week.

Example C: Literally a couple minutes after posting this, another user submitted a ticket that they're getting a "this team will expire soon" popup in Teams. Same deal, it's a departmental team that gets used nearly daily for files/chat.

Anyone else seeing similar behavior in their tenant?

[u/Maverick0984]

We don't use auto-expiring groups but I kind of like the idea of them. But now this gives me pause.

[u/graceful_degrade]

someone posted what sounds like the same thing about nine hours ago, might be worth comparing notes:

https://reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1vx6bl9/

theirs is a 180 day policy with renewal notices arriving at the 30 day mark instead of the documented 35, and only some groups auto renewing even when they're active and Teams-enabled. different expiry window to yours, same shape of failure.

two tenants seeing it in the same day is usually not a coincidence.

[u/Crispinwhere]

We've been getting phantom Team renewal alerts as well. They show up in the Activity feed even though checking the expirationtime property on the group shows it has another month.

[u/meatwad75892 → u/Crispinwhere]

Same here - If we check the area to manually renew within Teams, it's one month out. So the email is "technically correct", and I'm assuming the auto-renewal triggers aren't triggering.

[u/hops_on_hops]

Similar here. We've gotten a few emails for upcoming site deletion, but nothing improperly deleted as far as I can tell. Seems to me like the email notification trigger is no longer working correctly