Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): General availability of data purge capabilities for Microsoft Teams content

Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 30, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Currently available in public preview (MC343797, MC375741), this new feature extends data purge functionality to Microsoft Teams content to facilitate the purge of sensitive or misplaced data.

This message is associated with roadmap IDs 82125, 88975, and 93368. 

When this will happen:

Rollout will begin in early December and is expected to be complete by end of December.

How this will affect your organization:

Data spillage occurs when a confidential document is released into an untrusted environment. An eDiscovery case provides an effective way to manage data spillage investigations, so you can quickly assess the size and locations of the spillage, examine user activities around it, and then permanently purge the spilled data from the system.

With this update, you will be able to include Teams content in the scope of the data purge. 

Note: Data purge can’t delete items in a review set in eDiscovery (Premium) because the review set contains copies of items in the live service that are stored in an Azure Storage location. To delete items in a review set, you have to delete the eDiscovery (Premium) case that contains the review set. The purge signal will be available via the eDiscovery (Premium) Graph APIs. For more information, see Close or delete an eDiscovery (Premium) case. 

What you need to do to prepare:

Get started with eDiscovery (Premium) in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal for WW and GCC cloud environments
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal for GCC-H cloud environments
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal for DoD cloud environments 

Learn more: Search for and delete chat messages in Teams 

Message ID: MC476021