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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
Microsoft really needs to change the way they describe them in the actual settings as well. You generally think that "users" are by default not inclusive to the Administrators in terms of permissions. The assumption (I know &$$ out of you and me) was that I would apply this label to an item and it would prevent a user from deleting the content accidentally. Not that the label itself would be prevented from deletion by the administrator.