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StephanGee
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Nov 09, 2020

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....
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StephanGee
Steel Contributor
Nov 11, 2020

VasilMichev 

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

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VasilMichev
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Nov 11, 2020

Oh, so you mean user that was already "deleted"... sorry for being so slow. I'm not sure what the expected behavior is, perhaps Stephen Rose can clarify this.

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    StephanGee
    Steel Contributor
    Mar 21, 2021
    Tried this in my test tenant.
    Set retention date to 90
    Deleted some users
    Checked after 30 days - OneDrives are there
    Set retention policy to 30 days - Onedrives get deleted after 3 days (maybe the SPTimer took some time).
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    StephanGee
    Steel Contributor
    Nov 29, 2020

    VasilMichev 

    I think i will need to try it myself. Or get the OK from the management to just try it.