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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.
Thanks Tony, so there is no other way to remove that label from those documents either through powershell or from Microsoft back-end? We cannot clean up those things right?
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.