Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Separate retention policies for Copilot and AI apps

Microsoft Purview introduces separate retention policies for Copilot and AI apps, allowing admins to delete interactions faster. This feature, part of Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470025, will be available worldwide from late January to mid-February 2025 and requires no admin action. Organizations can configure different retention policies by default for various apps.

This new feature provides the capability for admins to configure separate retention policies for various Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI apps. As a result, admins will have the option to configure policies that can delete Copilot and Generative AI interactions faster.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470025.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

Organizations will now have controls to configure different retention policies for Microsoft Teams Chat, Copilot, Copilot studio, and ChatGPT Enterprise.

This feature is available by default.

What you need to do to prepare:

For more information, see Create and configure a retention policy.

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Message ID: MC973511


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