M365 News for October 2025
This post will be updated throughout the month as new items are added to the tag.
Be sure to subscribe to my M365 Newsletter for more M365 expertise and news.
This post will be updated throughout the month as new items are added to the tag.
Be sure to subscribe to my M365 Newsletter for more M365 expertise and news.
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?
Everything about Teams—security, retention, eDiscovery, privacy, and so on— starts with understanding the data involved. To understand the data involved, you need to be familiar with all the details of this chain reaction. You’re not protecting and investigating data in a Teams channel; you’re dealing with data in Exchange, SharePoint, and potentially in various other locations, depending on the apps used in the channel.
Be sure to subscribe to my M365 Newsletter for more M365 expertise and news.