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Using Office 365 retention policies with Office 365 Groups
Hi TonyRedmond ,
Wondering if you assist please.
I may have imagined this , but back in 2018 (I know long time ago now eh?) I recall it being possible to execute a retention policy without the use of labels.
e.g. it was possible to delete content across OneDrive that was older than e.g. 30 days using a policy from the Security and Compliance centre.
However, I'm looking at this now (in E3 )and it appears to only be possible to apply retention via Labels and Label policies. i.e. we couldn't run a default policy to simply delete everything in a OneDrive account that is older than a certain date.. a label would have to have been auto-applied or manually applied first?
Has there been a change to how this works in O365 or is this a limitation of E3?
Cheers.
Colm
In the SCC, go to Data Governance, then Retention, and create a new policy. Give it a name, a retention action and period, and then select all OneDrive accounts... Save the policy and you have what you want.
A policy for OneDrive
- Thanks Tony.
It was the initial UI presented when I clicked on the "retention" blade that threw me. there are tiles for "Labels" and "Label Policies" and I was expecting to see "Retention Policies" as a tile there too.
For others reference - just click the (at the moment it's blue) "Create" button and you will be able to create a policy without having to create a label first.