Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility (preview)

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 23, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

As a part of our extensibility vision and first release to Microsoft Graph, we are introducing three new APIs for retention labels, events, and event types in the Microsoft Graph beta environment. These APIs will enable you to customize and extend on what we have built in the product so far.

These APIs can be used by compliance admins and developers to manage retention labels in Data Lifecycle and Records Management solutions. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88276.

When this will happen:

The APIs began rollout to the Microsoft Graph beta environment in mid-July and are now available in preview.

How this will affect your organization:

If your organization needs to automate any operation related to retention labels or events, we recommend you achieve this by using the new Graph APIs instead of using PowerShell cmdlets. With Graph, we use REST APIs that support better security, extensibility, and app authentication features.

The three APIs are available under the security node and the endpoints to access them are as follows: 

Entity name	Endpoints	Solution
Labels	security/labels/retentionLabels	Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management
Events	security/triggers/retentionEvents	Records Management
Event types	security/triggerTypes/retentionEventTypes	Records Management

What you need to do to prepare:

Permissions

Currently, these APIs are supported through delegated permissions only, which are managed through the Graph interface. We are introducing two new permissions which you will need to access these APIs:

• recordsmanagement.read.all
• recordsmanagement.readwrite.all

Licensing

Access to Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management features varies based on your Microsoft 365 license level. See Microsoft 365 guidance for security & compliance – Service Descriptions | Microsoft Docs for licensing requirement details. 

You can find the Data Lifecycle and Records Management solutions in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Learn more  

• Learn more about retention labels: Create retention labels for exceptions – Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs 
• Learn more about event-based retention: Start retention when an event occurs – Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs 
• DLM and RM Graph APIs at Microsoft Build 2022: Automate and customize retention and deletion scenarios (microsoft.com) 
• Graph explorer platform: Graph Explorer | Try Microsoft Graph APIs – Microsoft Graph 

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