OneDrive retention presents several challenges due to the variety of items that reside there by default. Share a file in a Teams chat and collaborate on it? It’s in OneDrive. Upload a file for Copilot to summarize, which will be copied to OneDrive. Meeting recordings and notes? OneDrive. Items from your local desktop and documents folders? Likely synced to OneDrive.
Use OneNote to store notes that you want to keep as a historical record? Yeah, OneDrive.
How do you establish a single policy to cover the retention of all these different scenarios?
I want to be charitable and say that this doesn’t reek slightly of desperation, but is instead a strategic decision, possibly to be followed by a price increase next year. Or even that they are trying to lessen the confusion around the different versions of Copilot.
Then I counted the number of “Try Copilot Chat Now!” buttons on that page and immediately realized how desperate they are to get people to use Copilot.
I think there are some opportunities in AI for completing tasks, but I also think there is a serious risk in taking action without proper oversight. I’ll be very interested in seeing how Microsoft gets this out to business customers.
If you’re rolling out Copilot at work and looking for ways to teach people about using it, this might also be a good place to start.
I will admit, as interesting as SharePoint knowledge agents are, enabling them wasn’t very simple for a PowerShell novice like myself.
We may never know if Microsoft is delaying this in response to privacy concerns voiced by its customers, but we do know that many customers had strong reservations about this feature. Yet another thing for law firms and other industries where confidential information is discussed in meetings to be aware of.
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