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Remove a Sharepoint Site on Preservation Hold
We use Preservation Policies to meet compliance needs for our Sharepoint Online Sites and our user Onedrives. There is a site in particular with a subsite that I'd like to remove, but I can't due to the hold. I temporarily removed the site from it's corresponding Preservation Policy, and then attempted to remove the subsite. However, I was still greeted with the message "This site is on hold for eDiscovery" which prevents deletion.
What is the recommended way to remove this subsite?
P.S. We are not using "locked" Preservation Policies.
UPDATE
I was able to fix the problem by creating a new policy with the same sharepoint sites of the original policy, and then removing the original policy. This seems to indicate that the problem lie with the policy itself.
It's very possible that I still have other policies that would be affected by this problem, but with a relatively easy fix I'm not too worried about it. If I run in to the situation again I'll be able to deal with it.
Also, a big shout out to the Compliance and Security support team, who so far have been great to deal with. Thanks!
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It does take some time, did you check the DistributionStatus of the policy?
Looking deeper, it appears that the site will not actually remove from the policy. I have tried removing via the Admin Center and PowerShell, and each change results in a redistribution of the policy, but does not remove the site. Another bug?
It does look like a bug, let me try to repro...
