Understanding data governance and the retention requirements for your organization

Planning for data governance in Microsoft 365 requires compliance administrators to understand any internal organizational policies that must be adhered to, along with any applicable industry regulations.

These requirements will obviously differ depending on the nature of the organization, but overall, the principles of governing your data to ensure that you can appropriately retain, or retain then delete, the content within emails and documents are essentially universal.

The logical starting point for compliance administrators when starting on this journey is retention. Having the correct set of retention policies configured and applied will enable the other components of data governance to logically fall into place. With retention policies in Microsoft 365, you can apply actions organization-wide or to specific locations or users, which will either retain or delete content in line with set retention...