Retention Policy guides
A Microsoft Purview policy that keeps or deletes content for a specified period. See the glossary entry →
7 guides touch on retention policy.
- Exchange Online archiving and litigation hold
How Exchange Online keeps mail beyond the primary mailbox — archive mailboxes, retention, and legal hold.
- Handling an accidental mass delete of SharePoint files
Runbook for a mass delete of SharePoint files by a sync client, script, or user: stop the bleeding, pick the right restore tool, and recover it safely.
- Purview retention policies explained
How Microsoft Purview retention policies keep and delete content across Microsoft 365 — the model and the gotchas.
- Recovering a deleted Team and its data
Runbook for restoring a deleted Microsoft Teams team: the group restore that does the work, the 24-hour wait, what returns, and the options when it's too late.
- Recovering deleted OneDrive files after the recycle bin
What is recoverable from OneDrive after the 93-day recycle bin: deleted-user retention, Files Restore, retention policies, backup, and the support-only path.
- Restoring a deleted Microsoft 365 group and its resources
What comes back when you restore a deleted Microsoft 365 group: the 30-day window, the order things reappear, what does not return, and after the window.
- Teams meeting policies design
Designing Teams meeting policies for different user populations — recording, transcription, lobby, presenters, sharing.