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Missing Create New Retention Policy Option

John Laidlaw 46 Reputation points
2023-08-20T14:31:39.3833333+00:00

After our initial migration to SharePoint Online I set up a lone, rather crude, 'retain everything for ever' retention policy. Now that the migration is done I want to make this a bit more sophisticated. However the option to create a new policy has disappeared from the 'Data lifecycle management', 'Retention Policies' tab.

I'm sure it and various other options were there until I disabled the policy, as that how I disabled it. It is now re-enabled by using PowerShell cmdLets. But the menu items are still missing. I have Global Admin rights across the whole site.

Any thoughts on how to get them back?

(ps I know, I know... I called it a 'backup'!)

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  1. Balcarras Trust 0 Reputation points
    2023-10-27T08:54:55.49+00:00

    I presume you assigned the A3 licence to the admin account which is logging in to Admin Centre?

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