Chapter 17: Data Governance and Retention

Planning for data governance and retention is a crucial task for Microsoft 365 compliance administrators and it is vital to have the correct strategy in place to ensure that your organization is protected and compliant. There are a number of ways to govern and retain data that is hosted in your Microsoft 365 environment in order to ensure that the content cannot be lost either accidentally or due to the actions of a malicious insider.

In this chapter, we will introduce you to the principles of data governance and retention. You will learn how to configure retention tags and policies, how to use supervision policies to capture employee communications, and how litigation holds can be used to preserve electronically stored information. We will also explain how data such as user .pst files can be imported into Office 365 using the Security & Compliance Center, as well as show you how to configure in-place archiving and manage any inactive...