
The tags are intended to be applied to folders and items in a mailbox. Note: There is no parent retention policy - any email within a folder using this retention policy will be indefinitely retained unless the owner takes some action on it.Ī retention tag contains a definition of a time limit, called the retention period, and an action to be taken once the limit is reached. Here is a listing of current retention options you can choose from: Messages within Junk Email folder are deleted automatically after thirty days of being placed within this folder - if you do not find a message within your Junk Email folder, you may be able to recover it. Inbox, Sent Items, Drafts, and Deleted Items, other folders you may have created) retain messages indefinitely. Other than the Junk Email folder, all other default folders (eg.

Some folders/items have retention tags assigned by default (and may not be modified) and some can be controlled by the user. Retention policies and tags are preset for every Office 365 account.

For more details on email, chat, and text retention and archiving policies for UW-Madison, please see UW-Madison Administrative Related Record Schedules page. Regardless of what settings you see or can select within your client, archiving options will not work. IMPORTANT: Archiving policies are not implemented within UW-Madison Office 365 implementation.

These include: Inbox, Deleted Items, Sent Items, Drafts, and Junk Email folders. IMPORTANT: There are some folders with retention policies that cannot be modified within UW-Madison's implementation of Office 365.
