Anyone who has worked with SharePoint development in the golden age of server-side object model development (SOM) likely used the property bag for different requirements in their solutions. With the onset of new development techniques and foundations, the property bag went by the wayside and wasn’t used as often (or at all) when creating solutions. With the new adaptive scope feature in Microsoft Purview, property bag usage has made a resurgence as a necessary location to store values when assigning policies. I will be covering these features in a future post, but for now, I’d like to set the foundation for these posts by discussing property bags and their usage.
In this second video blog, I build on the previous presentation and publish my retention label with a retention label policy.
You can review the related blog post here: Information and Records Management in Office 365 – Publish a Retention Label
You can access the video here: Retention Label Policies in Microsoft 365
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I have a new announcement to make! In addition to my blog posts, I have also started to create video blogs to go along with my written posts. I know that many prefer to learn visually as opposed to reading text all the time. So I am now going to build video blogs along with many of my written posts. The first one is about retention labels.
I recently worked with a couple of Microsoft 365 user groups to provide some groundwork for Records Management. This presentation covers general records management concepts (technology agnostic) before discussing the implementation with Microsoft 365. Both groups asked some great question and I really enjoyed meeting with them. It’s a good presentation to understand not only the how, but also what records management is, why it’s important, who should be involved, and where it can be used within Microsoft 365.
Information Records Management 101 – Building the Foundation
(Note: if you have issues with the link above please review the comments at the bottom of this page).
I was recently working on a pilot for a client that required auto-apply of retention labels. The client wanted to understand if Microsoft 365 could meet their needs for records retention and disposal. To assist we set up your standard assortment of retention labels and policies such as auto-delete, disposition reviews, etc. One of the requirements was to configure auto-apply labels to decrease the level of involvement required by users. In their current record management system, they were configuring retention at the folder level. While this can certainly be accomplished with SharePoint Online, I strongly encouraged them to process auto-apply labels based on metadata instead. So one of our pilot configurations was to create a couple of auto-apply policies that applied labels based on a site column value. We created the policies, added content, set the metadata, and waited. Microsoft states it will take a little time for the labels to apply. I suggested a week, but by the second week, we still didn’t have any labels being applied automatically. I confirmed the queries were configured correctly (I’ll cover this in my next post), but in the end, we had to admit the auto-apply retention label policies were not functioning.