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Set Retention Policy from 1 year to 6 months - what will happen
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.
You are right. It's the OneDrive retention setup. We have no additional retention policy in place.
Nevertheless it's unclear what happens if i set the time to 6 months and after that about 150 OneDrives will be deleted
Nothing will be deleted, this only acts after the user object is removed/delicensed.