What will happen if we apply to retension policies to the same sharepoint site

Question

I have a question, now let say we applied those 2 retention policies to a specific SharePoint site, either by including this site or selecting All Sites:-

First policy. One which will delete the items after 10 years of been created:-

Second policy.which will retain the items forever:-

so which policy will be applied to the site? the one which delete after 10 years? or the one will retain forever? and how this is been determine?

Answer 1

The answer is the second policy takes precedence, contents in the SharePoint site will retain forever.

When multiple retention policies apply to the same content in Microsoft 365, the retention action takes precedence. This means the item will be retained for the longer of the two retention periods. So, the answer is the second policy takes precedence.

Use the following flow to understand the retention and deletion outcomes for a single item, where each level acts as a tie-breaker for conflicts, from top to bottom. If the outcome is determined by the first level because there are no further conflicts, there's no need to progress to the next level, and so on.

Reference:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/retention?tabs=table-overriden#the-principles-of-retention-or-what-takes-precedence

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