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How to set the retention Policy for Microsoft Teams Files
I want to set the retention policy for Teams Files. As I know, I can set the policy for SharePoint Site and OneDrive for business. I want to delete the files which belong to Teams. How do I choose...
- Hi Arthur_wang
Here is how to set a retention policy for Teams chats and conversations
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/retention-policies
Here is for SharePoint and OneDrive
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-policies-sharepoint?view=o365-worldwide
Teams is a converged application. Files in Teams go into SharePoint (For Teams files) or OneDrive (for personal files). Setting the retention policy on SharePoint and OneDrive files is therefore setting it for files in Teams
To specify which SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts would be when you are creating the policy - see here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/create-retention-policies?view=o365-worldwide#configuration-information-for-sharepoint-sites-and-onedrive-accounts
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Hi Arthur_wang
Here is how to set a retention policy for Teams chats and conversations
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/retention-policies
Here is for SharePoint and OneDrive
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-policies-sharepoint?view=o365-worldwide
Teams is a converged application. Files in Teams go into SharePoint (For Teams files) or OneDrive (for personal files). Setting the retention policy on SharePoint and OneDrive files is therefore setting it for files in Teams
To specify which SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts would be when you are creating the policy - see here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/create-retention-policies?view=o365-worldwide#configuration-information-for-sharepoint-sites-and-onedrive-accounts
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Here is how to set a retention policy for Teams chats and conversations
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/retention-policies
Here is for SharePoint and OneDrive
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention-policies-sharepoint?view=o365-worldwide
Teams is a converged application. Files in Teams go into SharePoint (For Teams files) or OneDrive (for personal files). Setting the retention policy on SharePoint and OneDrive files is therefore setting it for files in Teams
To specify which SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts would be when you are creating the policy - see here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/create-retention-policies?view=o365-worldwide#configuration-information-for-sharepoint-sites-and-onedrive-accounts
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
this might be the perfect answer.
Also
to get a quick look (not a detailed documentation) on how retention policy works ,click on the link below.
It is a Microsoft Tech community blog Post!