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Security & Compliance Labels - Still Not Working
Thanks for your reply Ady as I still have received no word from Microsoft.
With 25 days until GDPR comes into force, I am concerned that I will not be able to implement our desired data protection policies.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Retention-policy-via-label-unable-to-delete-content/m-p/184172#M16731
Yes, pretty sure they changed direction on this during the implementation of the technology. The documentation was created whilst this was in preview and doesn't look like it's been updated to the way the implementation actually works now. Preventing deletion of items makes sense - but they don't prevent deletion of the Site Collection/Group which doesn't make sense. Thus it's easy to overcome retention schedules/record declaration - with potentially grave consequences for a business who was relying on this technology.
- The way I see it, is that the retention policy should behave the same if it is 'delivered' by a label or directly (e.g. by being applied to a workload / product such as SharePoint sites).
If we configure 2 retention policies with exactly the same settings, then apply one directly to a SharePoint site, and the other via a label, we see different behaviour.
Interestingly, it is only the 'delete' user action that behaves incorrectly - you can still edit, rename and update items as expected.Hi Rob,
That's interesting - I actually haven't played with applying retention without using labels. Will do that and note down the differences. I agree with you that it really ought to be the same as it's just the application method that changes when you use a label.
With GDPR just around the corner, I would've hoped Microsoft would have a more coherent offering around labels and retention.
Regards,
Ady
- Thanks for your reply. At least now my sanity is not in question. :)
