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Cant find preservation hold library
Hi all,
I have set a retention policy on our sharepoint however the preservation hold library hasnt appeared and its been over a week and a half. I am a global admin
Any ideas?
- Yes.
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I opened a support case for this and, surprise, the Preservation Hold Library is now hidden in Site Contents for everyone, including SCA and Owners. You can still access it if you type in /preservationholdlibrary. No explanation given as to why, but thought I'd pass the message along for any other admins/engineers questioning their sanity. Cheers!!
Direct from Microsoft Premier Support:"We escalated your case to our product group, we were informed that Preservation hold library is now hidden, but we can still access it by manually by the url, this is an update from Microsoft that the preservation hold library is now hidden, apologies if this have caused you inconvenience."
- Thank you AJ, this was just what I was looking for.
There is a PowerShell possibility to un-hide the library, by changing its Hidden property to false. This will be needed on each site you want the PHL to be visible again.
With PnP (information on it at https://pnp.github.io/powershell/), you'll be able to change the property. Bear in mind, Microsoft support doesn't directly support PnP, with its support done by its own community. You have more information on this at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/community/community#whats-the-supportability-statement-around-pnp-open-source-components-and-solutions.
Example:
Install-Module -Name PnP.PowerShell # If not installed already
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://TENANT.sharepoint.com/<sites or teams>/SITE -Interactive
Set-PnPList -Identity "Preservation Hold Library" -Hidden $false
Anbrt does not work, says cannot find it since hidden
- Make sure you hard-delete at least one item put under hold, then browse to /PreservationHoldLibrary/Forms/AllItems.aspx
- When you say hard-delete does this mean out of the recycle bin?
- Yes.
