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SharePoint Retention Labels / Policies
Morning. We are using SharePoint to create (and replace) are current Departmental Drives and we are going to move all the documents on the Drives to the relevant sites. We want to apply retention p...
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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, Marina
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, Marina