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Retention Labels automatically created??
Glen CooperI had the same issue as you. It scared the sh*t out of me that I didn't remember that I created it under my admin account. A whole weekend passed by, thinking how it was possible ...
I logged a ticket with MS, first response was that it seems I did it, but when a collegue of mine found this post, Thx to him!!! I had some leverage to provide to MS, also thx to you for posting this issue here.
So they investigated it further and at least a week later, they came up with this url: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/file-plan-manager#default-retention-labels-and-label-policy
To keep the story short, when you click on the menu and choose "Office 365 Security & Compliance" -> Records managemnt -> File plan (and do nothing) it automatically activates the 3 generated retention labels under your account.
That's it.
I seem to recall someone from Microsoft talking about a default set of labels to be pushed to tenants that have no labels/policies configured already, but I cannot find an article mentioning this. The idea is similar to the default DLP policy we got a while back.
VasilMichev That's what it seems like. I have another tenant where I had been experimenting with labels but hadn't actually published them. That tenant hasn't been impacted. This is the kind of thing that should really come through the admin center updates if it's going to be visible to users.
