Microsoft O365 Group Mailbox only retention

Question

Hi,

I need to create a retention policy to delete emails older than 1 month from O365 group email.

Already created a retention policy in Purview and changed the application attribute Like this from Powershell --> Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -Identity policyname -Applications Group:Exchange.

But still when I do the "Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy" I can see the Workload as follows.

Workload--> Exchange, SharePoint, OneDriveForBusiness, Skype, ModernGroup, DynamicScope.

I do not want to delete anything else, only but old emails.

So I haven't enabled the policy. Is my config correct and do I have to wait some time for this changes to take effect and display.

Thanks and Regards,

lmgmcg

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can ignore the "Workload" property, it's not always correctly reflecting the policy setup. The set of *Location and *LocationException properties are what you should be looking at, but make sure to include the -DistributionDetail switch when running the cmdlet, otherwise they are not populated.

Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy Groups -DistributionDetail | fl Name,Distribution*,*Location*

Answer 2

Hi, @lmgmcg

I agree with Vasil's suggestion.

Currently, it will show all workloads and won't show the actual workloads to which the policy is applied. This is mentioned in the article.

More information can be found Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn

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