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Set Retention Policy from 1 year to 6 months - what will happen
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.
Maybe i need to describe one case to make it clear.
Current setting: 365 days until delete of OneDrive
Needed setting: 180 days until delete of OneDrive
Colleague left 8 months ago. His manager got access to his OneDrive.
I set the new setting to 180 days.
Possibilities:
Does the OneDrive gets deleted without notice?
Does the Manager gets a reminder and the 7 days until deletion starts?
Keep the existing OneDrives the old value and only the new "deleted users" get the new setting?
(Maybe another)
Best regards
Stephan