Planning and implementing adaptive scopes
As you have already seen in this chapter, when you create a retention policy or retention label policy, you are required to choose between adaptive and static scope types to define the scope of the policy. In previous examples, you have used static scopes wherein the administrator chooses the locations and the criteria for retention. Static scopes have more limited configuration options, such as including or excluding locations and instances within those locations.
With adaptive scopes, you can specify queries that enable the dynamic inclusion of users who should be targeted by the scope. Adaptive scopes run daily to pick up any changes that may apply, such as a new user account being added to Microsoft 365 that has a department field selection or a job title selection that matches an adaptive scope query. It is possible to use multiple adaptive scopes within a single policy.
Some advantages of using adaptive scopes include the following...