Creating and applying retention policies in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams stores data throughout the various Microsoft 365 services and Azure ecosystem. This means that the behavior of the retention policies depends on the type of data you wish to keep or delete.

Data can be kept or deleted by utilizing retention policies for Microsoft Teams. Single chat and channel messages, including embedded images, links, and tables as well as links to other messages and files can all be included as part of the policy. With individual chat messages, it includes all names of the users within the chat, and with channels it includes the team's name and the title of the message. Private channel Teams messages are not included, nor are emoticons.

Any document or emails that are utilized with Microsoft Teams are not included in retention policies. This content needs a different retention policy that has Exchange locations configured to protect group mailboxes.

Chats and channels are kept...