Hi guys,

Wanted to try my luck with this question here....I have some questions about the default Retention Policy that's built-in on O365.

After doing some research, it looks like the only thing that really translates to anything in the policy is that:
- Items in the "Deleted Items" and "Junk Mail" folder are deleted after 30 days
- Items older than 2 years will be moved to the in-place online archive automatically

The first one seems self-explanatory, but for the second one, if we don't have the archiving option enabled for the user, will this policy still work? My guess is that it wouldn't, but wanted to see if anyone else had actually dealt with this before.

Also, for the lines that contain the type "personal" on there, those are driven by the user, right? They're just available for the user to assign to their own items if they like to, is that correct?

Thanks for any replies in advance!

Clearly if there is no archive, the policy can't move anything to it.

Personal tags are available for the user to apply to folders themselves or individual items.  About the only way to systematically use these is to write a script that uses EWS calls to apply the tags, something I've done for customers.