Global Admin | Removing Preservation Lock | Microsoft 365 E5 Licenses | Retention Policy
Question
You are a global admin in a company with a Microsoft 365 subscription and Microsoft 365 E5 licenses assigned to your users.
You have set up several retention policies and labels, and placed a specific retention policy in Preservation Lock.
You regret the decision and need to remove the configured preservation lock setting.
Who can remove the preservation lock?
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Explanations
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A. B. C. D.Correct Answer: D
When you enable preservation locks on a policy, it is critical to understand that no one can disable or delete the policy.
You can add locations to the policy, but not remove them.
You can extend the retention period, but not decrease it.Option A is incorrect.
No one can remove the preservation lock.
Option B is incorrect.
No one can remove the preservation lock.
Option C is incorrect.
No one can remove the preservation lock.
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The Preservation Lock feature in Microsoft 365 is used to protect content from deletion or modification for a specified period of time. Once a retention policy is placed under Preservation Lock, it cannot be removed or changed until the lock period expires or is removed.
In this scenario, the question is asking who can remove the Preservation Lock setting on a retention policy that has been previously configured. The answer to this question is C. Global Admin.
Global Admins have full access to all Microsoft 365 features and services, including the ability to manage retention policies and labels, as well as modify or remove them. As such, they have the necessary permissions to remove the Preservation Lock setting on a retention policy if necessary.
Security Admins and Privileged Identity Admins are also roles in Microsoft 365, but they do not have the necessary permissions to remove the Preservation Lock setting.
The answer D, "No one", is incorrect because Global Admins do have the necessary permissions to remove the Preservation Lock setting.
