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Deleting Items from Preservation hold library
Hello, I have a client who needs to free up spaces taken mostly by retention. Since he's already backing up and archiving his data, the retention policy in place for the groups 365 is not neede...
I have had a very similar or the same issue. What I found, thanks to Vasil's (always helpful) response was that another policy, possibly one that was created and then deleted in the past year, was blocking the ability to remove the current retention policy. Once I removed the old policy, I then had to re-run the same link to remove the current policy. Once I did that, I was able to delete items from Preservation Hold libraries.
The only problem is that I want to remove this old policy wherever it has been applied and via PowerShell I'm told the policy does not exist.
PS - I kept a record of the GUIDs of all my policies and that specific GUID with '- SharePoint', isn't listed, which is why I believe it was an older policy. However, it MAY be related to eDiscovery as it appears to be applied to newer sites as well and I only removed the standard and eDiscovery cases 4 days ago.
The only problem is that I want to remove this old policy wherever it has been applied and via PowerShell I'm told the policy does not exist.
PS - I kept a record of the GUIDs of all my policies and that specific GUID with '- SharePoint', isn't listed, which is why I believe it was an older policy. However, it MAY be related to eDiscovery as it appears to be applied to newer sites as well and I only removed the standard and eDiscovery cases 4 days ago.