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FishyWishy
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Jun 13, 2024

Testing Purview retention policies

Hello,

 

I'm looking for a method to report on if a retention policy is actually applying - for example, we have a policy that deletes emails older than 10 years. Is there something that I can show to prove it is working?

I've looked briefly in the audit logs, but that can be tricky to navigate.

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  • Maverick1989's avatar
    Maverick1989
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    Dear FishyWishy,
    From my opinions, you can identify and check your policy first for errors https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/troubleshoot/retention/identify-errors-in-retention-and-retention-label-policies
    Then you can test a sample account/location with shorter retention period.
    Hope to receive more ideas from everyone.

    Thanks,
    Hieu Le

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