Configuring retention tags, retention policies, and supervision policies
When working with retention in Office 365, there are two distinctly different methods that you can use.
For Exchange Online email content, you can configure retention tags and retention policies using the Compliance section of the Exchange admin center. This method is particularly relevant to the settings that are applied to users when they have an online archive enabled for their mailbox (which we will examine in more detail later in this chapter).
It is also possible to configure retention policies for Exchange Online and other locations in Office 365, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams, from the Security & Compliance Center.
While using the Security & Compliance Center is now the preferred method of creating retention policies, the Exchange admin center method remains important as it is the only way that retention tags can be configured. In this section, we will show you how to...