content expires and is removed after 7 years). Retention labels by contrast are used in situations where you want to preserve and/or delete content after a certain amount of time has passed (e.g.Sensitivity labels are used to apply encryption and protect content from being overshared (similar to AIP), for example you may want to label an email or document as Confidential and prevent accidental sharing with recipients external to the organization.Through this UI, you can manage both Sensitivity and Retention labels. Recent announcements have shifted the sands a bit here with so-called “ Unified labeling“–which refers to a separate data classification system that is found within the Office 365 Security & Compliance center.
In the previous two posts, we looked at two capabilities of Azure Information Protection (AIP) P1, which is one of the many subscriptions bundled into Microsoft 365 Business:
