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Anthony_Tudor
Dec 12, 2019Copper Contributor
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 creat...
- Dec 13, 2019AFAIK, the only way is to configure a default label that gets applied to all documents.
Anthony_Tudor
Dec 13, 2019Copper 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.
At least with your suggestion you kind of force the user to make a different choice if they dont like the default.
Thijs Lecomte
Dec 13, 2019Bronze 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.
Just make sure your default label is secure enough. That way you can be rest assured that all documents will be saved.
- Anthony_TudorDec 13, 2019Copper Contributorthank you 🙂
Do you have any recommended link for getting started with applying default labels to all content in 365?- Dean_GrossDec 13, 2019Silver Contributorcheck this out https://joannecklein.com/2019/07/26/auto-apply-retention-labels-in-office-365-using-content-types-and-metadata/.
Also be careful when talking about labels, there are many different kinds, Retention and Sensitivity labels have very different implementation rules.- Anthony_TudorDec 13, 2019Copper ContributorHi Dean,
Thanks for the link, i've been using that one for the basis of my workaround of applying retention labels via either content types, choice columns or managed metadata.
What my organisation really wants is to be able to have a default retention label applied to all files within the O365 tenancy, much like you can with the previously mentioned sensitivity labels.
From what I can see the only way you apply a default retention label is either the Joanna Klein route or via applying a retention label at the library level, is that a fair assessment?
- Thijs LecomteDec 13, 2019Bronze ContributorCheck out step 19: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-and-manage-sensitivity-labels-2fb96b54-7dd2-4f0c-ac8d-170790d4b8b9