Saturday, January 21, 2023

Microsoft Teams Search and Purge

There are times when customers require the ability to purge data from their tenant.  The major services of Office 365 like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online (plus OneDrive for Business) and Microsoft Teams have always had methods for performing permanent deletion of data.  Exchange Online and SharePoint Online have always had capabilities that allows you to do item level data purging.  There have always had ways to delete Microsoft Teams chat data too, however the deletion options of chat item level data was very limited and not optimal.  This is no longer the case.  

Microsoft Teams has a new feature in the eDiscovery Premium SKU that allows you to have item level deletion of chat data.  This feature is now fully Generally Available.  

Please review the links below.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=Teams%2Cpurge

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/ediscovery-search-and-delete-teams-chat-messages?view=o365-worldwide

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/search-for-and-delete-messages-in-your-organization?view=o365-worldwide

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/assurance/assurance-exchange-online-data-deletion

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/assurance/assurance-sharepoint-online-data-deletion