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Preventing Users from Deleting Data from OneDrive for Business
Currently we are using Carbonite for our data backup solution and we are thinking of moving to Onedrive for Business. One key feature that we need is preventing a user from deleting data from his/her OneDrive. I failed to fine an option to do that. Is there any such option? Any kind of information/help would be highly appreciated.
OneDrive is considered *personal*, so you shouldn't really be imposing any restrictions, unless you have specific needs (i.e. legal requirements). For such, you can use the hold functionality, here's one semi-automated solution: https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-a-script-to-add-users-to-a-hold-in-an-eDiscovery-case-in-the-Office-365-Security-Compliance-Center-bad352ff-d5d2-45d8-ac2a-6cb832f10e73
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OneDrive is considered *personal*, so you shouldn't really be imposing any restrictions, unless you have specific needs (i.e. legal requirements). For such, you can use the hold functionality, here's one semi-automated solution: https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-a-script-to-add-users-to-a-hold-in-an-eDiscovery-case-in-the-Office-365-Security-Compliance-Center-bad352ff-d5d2-45d8-ac2a-6cb832f10e73
Thanks Vasil for you feedback. Much appreciated.
- Totally agree here with Vasil's comment
