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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
So nice! So I made a typo and now we'll have to live with it on the tenant for ever. Clever, very clever!
Eric Beaudry There is nothing in Microsoft's actual documentation (link provided above) that suggests the label cannot be deleted. It talks specifically about items that have been declared as a record. So the label should be able to be deleted. MS needs to fix this ASAP.