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Kamran Ahmed's avatar
Kamran Ahmed
Brass Contributor
Jan 14, 2020

Retention Policy and OneDrive data recovery

I'm in the process of configuring OneDrive for Business and was looking at how to setup the retention policy. I found you can setup a retention Policy in Security and Compliance>Information Governance and you can also change the number of days from 30 to a maximum of 3650 (10 years) in OneDrive Portal (Storage), what is the difference? Do i need to enable both for the retention to work? Does this change the way we restore permanently deleted OneDrive Data?

  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    Jan 15, 2020

    The first option requires specific licenses, the second one is free. And as I mentioned above, they serve different purposes, namely if you need to meet compliance requirements, retention policy is the way to go. And no, recovering Inactive mailbox doesn't do anything with regards to the OneDrive for the user.

  • The first option is for meeting compliance requirements, as in storing copies of deleted/modified documents, etc. The second one is just for deleted user's content, it doesn't guarantee data immutability.

    • Kamran Ahmed's avatar
      Kamran Ahmed
      Brass Contributor

      VasilMichev - Thank you for clarifying.

       

      If the first option is enabled do we really need the second option? I would expect the second option to be covered by the first.

       

      I have created a retention policy protecting locations Exchange Online, SharePoint and OneDrive, if i recover an inactive mailbox will OneDrive data also recover part of the restore?

      • VasilMichev's avatar
        VasilMichev
        MVP

        The first option requires specific licenses, the second one is free. And as I mentioned above, they serve different purposes, namely if you need to meet compliance requirements, retention policy is the way to go. And no, recovering Inactive mailbox doesn't do anything with regards to the OneDrive for the user.

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