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Notifications for files deleted under retention policies
Hello, I have a client who has implemented Retention policies to delete files on SharePoint after 2 years. It is working as intended, but a pain point is users would like to be notified when a file...
Hi, nothing I'm aware of. Considering there has been a decision made to delete the information after 2 years, this organization might need to re-evaluate the retention policies settings instead of all these ad-hoc workarounds.
Thanks Christian, agreed, it defeats the purpose. Can't have both.
In case anybody is following this thread, I did come up with Automated reports to send Site Owners a list of all files where the retention policy will be reached in the next 6 months so they can modify them before they get deleted. could probably do the same in PowerShell, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something like a checkbox somewhere...
In case anybody is following this thread, I did come up with Automated reports to send Site Owners a list of all files where the retention policy will be reached in the next 6 months so they can modify them before they get deleted. could probably do the same in PowerShell, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something like a checkbox somewhere...