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Office 365 security & compliance & How to delete a label that is marked as record
I created a few test labels. I am able to delete all labels except label that has been marked as a record. Following powershell code gives an error: "You cannot remove the compliance label because...
As noted in the documentation, record labels cannot be removed or edited: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Overview-of-labels-af398293-c69d-465e-a249-d74561552d30#records
Oh! And here I was thinking "A record can’t be modified or deleted" would not apply since I am not actually published my label. No warning whatsoever. Microsoft will have many happy customers using their production tenant as a test-bed for labels. It's a good thing I used a test tenant.
Just walked into this trap myself.
Not impressed.
