Forum Discussion
Retention policies for modern team sites
You should be able to type in the URL of any site collection, including those belonging to Groups you are not a member of. If you are seeing something else, that's a bug and you should open a support case to have it investigated.
You can also just use PowerShell to create the policy/add locations.
o.k. I have opened a support request up to Microsoft and they have told me that I need to be an owner of every site I want to add to a retention policy. They have told me this is the only way to do this.
I have of course asked them to document this claim in an email, I shall await their email.
That sounds like a BS to me, retention policies are a tenant-wide feature and so creating them is not dependent on the site-level permissions.
The reply from Microsoft support appears to point out that as a Global Admin I should be automatically added as a site collection administrator to all created sites apart from ones that have been marked as private.
I don't think this is the case. It may be that roles have been amended over time by other GA's in our tenant but as a Global Admin I don't seem to have access to all site collections. I can however add myself as a site collection administrator to many sites if needed and then I can add the sites to the retention policies.
Thanks Vasil.
I will open up a support case as it appears I can't do what you suggest.
I'd rather not use Powershell at the moment for this until I can address some of the other issues I am having.
