Hold on deletion of folders

Question

Hi all,

About a week a go I removed / disabled onedrive retention for onedrive sites on Data lifecycle management

I even used policy look up to see what i had enabled

Answer 1

Hi @Aran Billen

Thanks for your sharing.

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Issue Symptom:

Unable to delete folders - possible on hold

But OneDrive retention for OneDrive sites was removed / disabled on Data lifecycle management. Related polices were also checked.

Current Status:

This issue was fixed via: https://aka.ms/PillarInvalidRetention (Try to find an invalid retention policy that might be blocking the deletion.)

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