Hi, We are looking at moving from SharePoint 2013 to 365. We would like to use the Teams app but we have to add data classification tags based on restricted levels to all documents as well as follow an Alberta Government policy ARDA which has hundreds of retention policies that we have to follow for every type of document under the sun (meeting agenda vrs meeting minutes etc....). Currently in 2013 we use content types to manage this. It is causing low user adoption because users hate filling out a zillion fields each time they upload a document, they classify things incorrectly etc... I read that it was not recommended to put custom content types on the Default documents library where Teams stores any documents that are added through the files tab. So how do we do still meet these requirements and be able to use Teams with the default Files tab? I'm hoping that with 365 retention polices and the use of keywords we can set this up in the background so users don't have to classify anything. I don't understand enough about the new Retention policies in 365 to know if this will meet our needs. Has anyone else in Alberta done this that also has to follow ARDA? Also if we stop using content types in SharePoint online will that effect our search capabilities? Currently our search in 2013 is not working great because people classify things wrong anyway and the search is heavily based on the content types, we just don't want to do something that will make it worse. We are still investigating the new search online as well. What is the future of content types in SharePoint online? It seems like Microsoft maybe moving slightly away from using them so much is that correct? What other tools/strategies are they pushing to use to tackle the same issues instead?
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