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Purview retention locations
Do you want to apply a sensitive label or a retention label to email attachments that internal users' send?
Retention labels are used to apply certain actions to documents that match the label conditions. Actions could be to delete, prevent deletion of the matched item after/for a certain period. While sensitive labels will apply certain (encryption) labels to the matched items such as to mark the email attachment as confidential/secret/no forward labels.
Retention label is part of Microsoft 365 data-life cycle management feature while sensitivity label is part of information protection feature.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/apply-sensitivity-label-automatically
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/apply-retention-labels-automatically
I hope this helps.
