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Retention labels behavior, need suggestion please?
Joseph8888 You can clean up labels.
First, you unpublish them by removing the labels from all policies. The labels stay in place on the assigned documents.
Then you delete the label from the SCC (or with PowerShell). This puts the label into a pending deletion state.
Next, you wait for Office 365 background jobs to recognize that the label no longer exists. Eventually (could be a couple of days) the penny will drop and the labels will be removed from the documents. At this point, the documents will be governed by the general policy applicable to the site/account.
VasilMichev , thanks for your reply. Which means in my scenario, I am deleting a label which is set to 5yrs delete only and making changes to existing default OneDrove Tenant level
policy called "3years delete" to 5yrs delete , then documents which are exclusively applied with a label
previously will still reflect to that deleted label policy? Because here I am not creating any label anymore instead I am just making changes to an OneDrive Tenant level policy.
Joseph8888 When you apply a specific retention label to a document, it takes precedence over a general policy applied to a OneDrive account. If you change the general policy to extend the retention period, the new extended period will govern any document not assigned a specific label,.
TonyRedmond . What about already assigned label documents? will that also be governed by general policy after the change? we don't want old documents to still reflect deleted/remove Label.