A major part of designing your organization's data governance plan in Microsoft 365 is understanding the default retention and deletion actions that are implemented on the content of the various apps and services being utilized by your users. Some of these can be modified, and you can design custom retention policies to accurately reflect the unique needs of your organization and the industry regulations it may be subject to.
In this chapter, you will learn what tools are available for automating retention based on specified criteria, backing up your data, and working from backups to restore important data. This chapter will prepare you for the following exam topics:
- Planning and configuring information retention
- Planning for a Microsoft 365 backup
- Planning for restoring deleted content
Let's begin with planning and configuring information...
