Governance in IT is establishing rules, policies, tools and practices that helps you manage and protect your enterprise resources. SharePoint governance (or wider – Collaboration governance) covers References
Sometimes, mostly during PoC or testing policies like retention policy or lifecycle policy you would need some documents created and updated weeks, months or even years ago. But if you create or upload a document in SharePoint library – it will be just a regular new document. So, how to get old documents in the […]
Adaptive scopes are good, but what if both policies are implemented? Which one wins?The scenario for two policies might be: static retention policy is implemented as default retention policy for all sites, and if site require different retention or deletion – it should fall under one of the adaptive scopes and an adaptive retention policy […]
This post is dedicated to one specific subject: implementing Microsoft 365 groups lifecycle (expiration) policy in large Microsoft 365 environments. But this post is also a part of a bigger problem – dealing with ownerless resources in Large Microsoft 365 environments. Please refer to the umbrella post. Scenario You administer a large Microsoft 365 environment. […]
Nobody likes garbage, including Microsoft 365 administrators. If any user can create a team or yammer community – they create, but then they leave company and we are getting more and more abandoned groups, teams and SharePoint sites. So we need a way to clean up environment. There is a Microsoft 365 groups expiration policy […]
Microsoft recently implemented “Adaptive” retention policies. At step 2 of “Create retention policy” you’ll be asked “Choose the type of retention policy to create”: “A policy can be adaptive or static. Advantage of an adaptive policy will automatically update where it’s applied based on attributes or properties you’ll define. A static policy is applied to […]
Microsoft recently implemented “Adaptive Scopes” for retention policies”. Before that we had to use “static” scopes only, i.e. we could apply the policy to all sites or to specific selected sites we had to choose manually. With adaptive scopes we can use rules like “This adaptive scope must include all sites with Site Url starts […]
As I am a SharePoint person, and retention policies and labels are not a SharePoint engineer responsibility, I do not go to the m365 Compliance Center frequently. Below are My notes for myself on key moments – how to create and configure Office 365 retention labels and Policies at Compliance Center and use labels in […]