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johnjohn-Peter
Feb 26, 2025Iron Contributor
Monitor the documents that got deleted or are near deletion as part of a site retention policy?
If we define this retention policy on one site:- So what does this policy exactly means? it means that items modified 5 years ago will be permanently deleted even if they are not deleted? or it ...
Barbarur
Mar 19, 2025Brass Contributor
- Yes, files not modified for 5 years will be deleted. You can think of the function as automatic clean up of unneeded files (if your organization thinks files above 5 years are not needed).
- you can set an alarm in MS Purview to notify you when a file is deleted by the system. “Monitor files that are about to be deleted” is not a thing. You would need to crawl though all your files regularly to do that, which is a huge workload.