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Updated Oct 08, 2025
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milkyway123
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Oct 08, 2025

Will archived files be retained when an employee's OneDrive is deleted?
Bonus question: Did Copilot wrote that OneDrive song? 👀

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    Trent Green
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    Oct 08, 2025

    Archiving a file with M365 archive does not change the duration of that file's retention.  Archived files are essentially 'tiered' into colder storage.  Therefore, if there were archived files on an employee's OneDrive account and the account gets deleted, the archived files would be deleted as part of the account deletion.