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Set Retention Policy from 1 year to 6 months - what will happen
Hi everyone,
i have a change request to set the retention policy from 1 year to 6 months.
I cannot really "test" it on a test tenant what will happen if a "delegated OneDrive" ist 8 months old. Will it trigger a notification, will it be deleted immediately?
Could not find anything about it in the MS docs. Or does it just affect newly deleted users?
Best regards
Stephan
Retention policies act on items stored within a given site, not the site itself. If you change the duration, items will be reprocessed and the appropriate action taken, depending on the retention settings you've configured. Unless you've specifically configured a "disposition" label, nothing should be deleted, even after items "expire"
Thanks for your answer. But i think the deletion process behind the OneDrive might be more complex
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/retention-and-deletion
E.g.
Seven days before the retention period expires, a second email will be sent to the manager or secondary owner as a reminder that the OneDrive will be deleted in seven days.
I do not want that some managers get 16 mails the day i set the new period.
That's not a retention *policy*, read the big note at the end of the article you linked above.
