Configuring retention labels and policies

In this section, we will learn how to create retention labels, retention label policies, and retention policies and apply them to Microsoft 365 workloads, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams, from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Retention labels are generally intended for when you need exceptions to your retention policies. Typically, you would use retention labels to retain specific items for longer periods than an applied retention policy. For example, you may set retention policies on SharePoint sites to retain content for five years. However, you may also have some documents within the SharePoint site that need to be retained for a longer period—say seven years—for regulatory compliance reasons. Retention labels could be applied to that content. First, we will see how retention labels are used at the item level and applied to content with retention label policies, and then how retention...