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Groups, Sharepoint Data & Retention/Compliance Req's - Watch Out Before You Delete
John, perfect timing!
Following today's announcement: Announcing the release of Threat Intelligence and Advanced Data Governance, plus significant updates to Advanced Threat Protection
You can now easily set a retention or deletion policy for an entire group (which will apply to the SP content): Overview of retention policies
Screenshot below:
Thanks Drew Madelung and Christophe Fiessinger for your replies. I've learned this week that O365 Groups is an 'Embrace it or get run over it' feature, and will do my best to integrate it into my company.
I fully understand that the 'Way People Work' has changed and Groups is an apt response to it. Nevertheless, retention/discovery is still an issue for me and once I get my arms fully wrapped around it I'll need to schedule meetings with my C-levels and legal dept to explain this to them.
SPTechCon Austin was very good, and I had a lot of good takeaways. Kudos to all the speakers.
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