Brian's SharePoint Site Retention Duration
Question
You are a global admin in a company with a Microsoft 365 subscription.
You have set up a retention policy retaining the information in all sharepoint sites for 5 years.
Another administrator in your company has created a data retention label with a retention period of 2 years.
A Sharepoint site owner named Brian tags his site with the label with 2 years retention for items.
How long will the information in Brian's sharepoint site be retained?
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Explanations
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A. B. C. D.Correct Answer: C
The longest retention period wins.
In this scenario the policy scoped at all sharepoint sites with a retention period of 5 years will be the effective policy.
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According to the scenario, there are two retention policies that are applicable to Brian's SharePoint site. The first retention policy set by the global admin applies to all SharePoint sites and retains the information for five years. The second retention policy is set by another administrator in the company, which is a data retention label with a retention period of two years.
When a retention label is applied to a SharePoint site, it overrides the default retention policy for that site. Therefore, Brian's SharePoint site will follow the retention period specified in the retention label, which is two years.
It's important to note that the retention period of a retention label is added to the retention period of the default retention policy. Therefore, if there were no retention label applied to the site, the information would be retained for five years. However, since Brian's site has a retention label with a two-year retention period, the information in his site will be retained for a total of seven years (5 years from the default retention policy + 2 years from the retention label).
Therefore, the correct answer is option D, which is seven years.
