If the last owner leaves an Outlook.com group, the group will be deleted 30 days later and all of the messages and other content in the group will be gone.
If you're joined to the group with your Microsoft account - Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, or Live.com - you will have the opportunity to export the conversations, files, and other group content before the group expires, if you want to.
Important: If you want to keep the content you export it promptly. Once the group expires that content is no longer recoverable.
To export data from your group see How do I export content from an Outlook.com group?
If you're joined to the group with a non-Microsoft account you will simply stop receiving messages from the group when it expires. You don't have the option to directly export group content, but you may be able to reach out to one of the members who does have a Microsoft account and ask if they can export the content and share it with you.
View and restore groups that have been recently deleted in Outlook on the web
As a group owner, you can restore a group that's been deleted the last 30 days.
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Sign in to Outlook on the web and select the People icon
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Under My groups in the navigation pane, select Deleted to see the groups that have been deleted the last 30 days. You'll see information about when the group was deleted, and how long it will take before it's deleted permanently.
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Select the group, and then select Restore.
The group and all its resources will be restored.
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