Question

Contoso has a retention policy applied to all SharePoint sites that retains content for 5 years, then deletes it. The compliance team also publishes a retention label that retains matching contracts for 10 years, then deletes them, and configures it to auto-apply to any document containing specific contract keywords. A contract document stored in SharePoint matches both. How long will the contract be retained before deletion?

Accepted Answer

10 years, because retention wins over deletion and the longest retention period is applied

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5 years, because the site-level retention policy always takes precedence over labels

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5 years, because the shorter retention period always wins to minimize storage

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The content is deleted immediately because the two settings conflict and cancel each other out