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SharePoint Retention Labels / Policies
MVCuser
Have you considered using a migration tool that keeps the original modified date?
This way you avoid the problem you described. Having data in your SharePoint system that should have deleted x years ago may sound like an inconvenience with the main impact being on storage. However, there are regulations that require data to be destroyed after a certain amount of time. Keeping it for several additional years after this deletion date because of the "migration process" may no go well with the auditors / compliance officers.
- Hi Paul de Jong.
I didn't know that was an option, Been trying to read all I could on the Microsoft webpages and documentation, but didn't see anything about tools. Is there any you can recommend please?
thanks again.
Kind regards, MarinaThere is useful list of tools on Collab365: https://collab365.com/best-sharepoint-migration-tools/
I noticed that the free tool from Microsoft SPMT is not listed. Definitely something to assess.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointmigration/introducing-the-sharepoint-migration-tool
Some tools are quite expensive. Find the one the best fits your requirements and budget.
FYI: It is best if the original modification date is retained during the migration.
We are working on a solution to extract the original modification dates stored within SharePoint files (docx, pdf, msg, ...) and then update the document's SharePoint modification date. This is of course only useful in case the migration has resulted in fresh modification dates. Again: retaining the original modification date is what you should aim for.
