Retention Policies
Retention Policies helps define how Microsoft 365 content is retained, deleted, labelled, or managed as records over time.
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Retention Policies helps define how Microsoft 365 content is retained, deleted, labelled, or managed as records over time.
It sits in Microsoft Purview under the Purview workload. Use the licence signal to see where it is included, then open a licence map to understand how it fits with nearby capabilities.
Feature profile
- Product
- Microsoft Purview
- Workload
- Purview
- Category
- Purview
- Status
- active
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