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Copper Contributor

May 11, 2017

Data Governance Retention Policies Do Not Appear to be Enabled

We have created a Retention Policy in Data Governance via the new Security and Compliance Portal. We have set Exchange Email to include All users and Exclude none. From my understanding, this conso...

MVP

May 11, 2017

Empty equals "all" in this case.

Jeremy
Brass Contributor
Mar 15, 2018
Hi Vasil,

If empty equals "all", why is it that when I create a Compliance Retention Policy that only targets Exchange in the GUI, PowerShell shows {} for all categories: sharepoint, odfb, exchange, skype, and moderngroups?

How can I apply a RetentionCompliancePolicy to only a single workload via PowerShell?

Thanks,

Jeremy
- VasilMichev
  MVP
  Mar 15, 2018
  Are you referring to the *location properties? Those will only be populated if you use the -DistributionDetail switch. To create a policy applied to only Exchange, use the -ExchangeLocation switch with the "All" value.
  - Jeremy
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 16, 2018
    Hi Vasil,
    
    Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. i didn't notice there was an additional switch that had to be used to get the full details. Is there a reason for needing the detail switch as opposed to simply exposing these properties by default? Seems like an unnecessary step.
Don Young
Copper Contributor
May 12, 2017
Thanks Vasil but is there any way for me to tell for sure?
- VasilMichev
  MVP
  May 12, 2017
  You mean you don't trust me? :( I'm not aware of any document that mentions this, if that's what you mean.
  - Don Young
    Copper Contributor
    May 12, 2017
    Oh not at all! I meant no disrespect! :-)
    
    Thanks for the info!