Retention Policies vs. Retention Labels 

It seems like MS already changed this to Information Protection under MS Purview 😡😡

Thank you David. The explanation is awesome. However, we tried to implement the same with you Office E3 trial account. The policy gets applied successfully and documents are labelled properly. However, when the retention period expires the items are not getting deleted. Can you suggest a possible reason behind it?

lol, I understood everything

I had been so confused with retention policy and retention label.. You clearly it brilliantly in 8 minutes.. Cannot thank you enough.. Thanks a lot..

A question David. Hopefully you can answer please. If I set a retention policy for 1 year on all mailboxes and at the end of the retention period, I choose to do nothing instead of "delete items automatically" what happens to do the deleted emails? Is it in the recoverable items? Also as per your video using the same scenario as above, if I do choose at the end of the retention period and set to "delete items automatically" what happens after a year once the retention period has ended? Can administrators still search for the emails even though it is over a year old via content search?

Great explanation!

Hi David. Hopefully I ask you a quick question. I have a retention policy set for all Exchange which retains data for 7 years and then delete. I also have a label for HR staff of retain for 3 years and delete. If you have policy for all Exchange mailbox data but apply a separate label to a specific email do labels take precedence over policies?

Thank you David for this video, the picture/diagrams finally got the light bulb to turn on. So, The pros with Retention Labels/Label policies is that each document/folder/library can be set to different policies i.e. either 2 years or 5 years or none. Cons are that users 'could' choose not to set the label AND the major one that I am searching for is that items do not go through disposition and get deleted without letting site owners know it is gone. Do you have any suggestions on allowing site owners to get notified? The only solution I can come up with is 1) out of the box alerts for deleted items, 2) checking recycle bin every month (yuck) or getting a reporting tool to list out files that haven't been modified in X months that are about to get trashed. Thanks again for your video!

Hi David, great content. Are you going to upload more videos?

Thanks for the video - policies vs labels is a bit confusing !

Great video series. Waiting for more such videos.

Great Video David thank you :)