How the retention policy on OneDrive works when the user is deleted and license is removed.

Ajaz Khan 266 Reputation points
2021-06-09T10:31:59.597+00:00

We applied a retention policy on a users OneDrive for 3 years. My query is how the retention policy on OneDrive works when the user is deleted and license is removed in O365. Will the user's OD data be available for 3 years when the account is deleted from Azure AD?

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  1. Vasil Michev 119.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-09T12:32:24.267+00:00

    That's the theory, yes. As long as there is a retention policy acting upon the drives, they will be preserved and removing the user/license wont affect them. Neither will you be able to manually delete the site via PowerShell.

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