Objects in a Retention Policy populated by Adaptive Scopes
I need a way to get all users in a retention policy that is populated by an adaptive scope. I can get all the members of the scope, and I can show that the policy uses that adaptive scope. But I know my audience. They will want to see that the users are actually in the policy. They will probably even want to see that it matches the users in the adaptive scope. In the GUI, I can click on an adaptive retention policy and click on "policy details". This will show all the users that the policy applies to and the date/time they were added, if they were removed from the policy, etc. And I can even export that. How can I get this same information via PowerShell? It's going to be important because, as you can see, there's a big difference in the date/time added. they were all in the adaptive scope BEFORE this policy was created, but it still took nearly 24 hours for all users to be added. Which is fine, and typical, but if a user gets added to the adaptive scope and does not have the policy applied to them within 24 hours, we need to know this. The goal is as much automation as possible, with checks and balances in place. Checks and balances require gathering information. That's going to require getting this information via PowerShell.
Deletion of an SharePoint website with an adaptive scope
We are using a retention label "Keep forever" which we have published via a retention policy. In this policy, we have established an adaptive scope based on a KQL query which selects a large part (but not all) SharePoint websites in our tenant. Since there are several new sites created every day in our tenant automatically, adding sites manually to a static scope doesn’t make practical sense. This has worked well. Now we ran into the usecase that we would like to delete a number of (old and not used anymore) SharePoint websites. My first idea was to change the KQL statement and add a NOT Operator inside of the statement. This was fine. However, from studying the material on MS learn, this will trigger a 30 Grace Period for these sites that have been removed from the adaptive scope, although they are not part of retention policy anymore (visible by the policy lock up function). I read that there is a way to EXCLUDE sites from a retention policy (which doesn’t trigger the 30 Grace Period), however this option seems only to be available when using static scopes and not adaptive scopes. Does anyone know a way to retain the flexibility provided by the adaptive scope and not be affected by the Grace Period?
