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Unlocking The Power Of Retention Labels In Microsoft 365

Retention labels in Microsoft 365 play a crucial role in effective data management and governance. With the increasing volume of digital content generated by organisations, it is essential to implement proper strategies for data retention.

In this article, we will explore the power of retention labels in Microsoft 365 and how they can benefit organisations in managing their data effectively.

By applying retention labels at the item level, such as documents or emails, organisations can retain or delete content based on regulatory compliance requirements and internal policies. Retention labels ensure that content is preserved for the required duration and disposed of appropriately when no longer needed.

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Automatically apply a retention label to retain or delete content

One of the most powerful features of retention labels is the ability to apply them automatically to content that matches specified conditions. In this case, people in your organization don’t need to apply the retention labels. Microsoft 365 does the work for them.

Auto-applying retention labels are powerful because:

  • You don’t need to train your users on all of your classifications.
  • You don’t need to rely on users to classify all content correctly.
  • Users no longer need to know about data governance policies – they can focus on their work.

You can apply retention labels to content automatically when that content doesn’t already have a retention label applied and contains sensitive information, keywords or searchable properties, or a match for trainable classifiers. Now in preview, you can also automatically apply a retention label to cloud attachments that are stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

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