Specific differences between a Litigation Hold, and a Forever Retention Policy for OneDrive data?

Hey OneTechBeyond ,

If you put OneDrive on hold ( like by creating a ediscovery case) , the hold will take precedence over the normal OneDrive deletion process and the data wont be deleted until the hold expires, even if the user account is deleted. You can either put the user on hold or simply configure retention settings for OneDrive , you can retain the OneDrive data of a deleted user using retention settings for up to 10 Years!

Configure retention settings: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/set-retention

Do remember to set the Manager and secondary owner attributes before deleting the user to be able to receive notifications when the hold/policy is about to expire.

Please refer : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/retention-and-deletion

Once you delete the user, you receive an email from Microsoft, looks somewhat like this:

It gives you the URL at the bottom as well to access onedrive files.