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Anthony_Tudor
Brass Contributor
Dec 12, 2019

Make apply retention label a required field

Hi,

 

My organisation is preparing for the move to O365, one of the things we are deciding is the way we going to implement retention policies in the new world. What we would like to do is to create retention labels/ policies in the Security & Compliance Center and have these surface as drop-down choices within a mandatory field within Exchange email, Office 365 groups, OneDrive and SharePoint documents.

 

We've set everything up, but it doesn't appear that the apply retention label field is a required field (see below). Is it possible to make this required?

 

Thanks 


Anthony

  • AFAIK, the only way is to configure a default label that gets applied to all documents.
  • Thijs Lecomte's avatar
    Thijs Lecomte
    Bronze Contributor
    AFAIK, the only way is to configure a default label that gets applied to all documents.
    • Anthony_Tudor's avatar
      Anthony_Tudor
      Brass Contributor
      Thanks for the reply 🙂 yes that was my thought too, the only other way I could think of is to have a column in every document library and each retention option albeit choice or MMS terms are mapped to a retention label the the KQL builder, but i dont really want to do that!

      At least with your suggestion you kind of force the user to make a different choice if they dont like the default.
      • Thijs Lecomte's avatar
        Thijs Lecomte
        Bronze Contributor
        I wouldn't get started with that too 😄
        Just make sure your default label is secure enough. That way you can be rest assured that all documents will be saved.

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