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Retention Policies set to delete files not working in SharePoint on new E3 trial tenant
I spun up an O365 E3 trial to do testing for a customer. I have created a few Retention policies (not labels) - the one that should be the most simple is not working at all: Delete after 2 days,...
In case anyone runs into this same issue - amongst the hundreds of pages of docs.microsoft.com, I finally found a single reference to the requirement that Sites must be re-indexed in order for these retention policies to kick in and delete after the designated time.