Metadata on a mission – retention and sensitivity labels
So far, we’ve discussed metadata as a way to drive content management toward consistency for the benefit of filtering, sorting, and searching. We can also use metadata to apply policies to documents that live in SharePoint. The policies can either be retention (how long a document is around and what its disposition rules are) or sensitivity (information protection rules for Office documents in SharePoint and OneDrive).
Retention labels
Retention labels can be defined in the Microsoft Purview (formerly the Compliance center as part of security and compliance) admin center and applied to an item or document in SharePoint or OneDrive, as well as the site itself if needed. Labels are in addition to policies that can be applied to larger sets of documents, such as all files in a particular site. The label is a metadata column that can be applied by an end user, automatically at the library level, or through a document...
