The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail.
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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies
- General availability
- 2026-09
- Preview
- 2025-02
- Added
- 22 May 2024
- Last modified
- 18 Jun 2026 23:00 UTC
- First archived
- 25 Aug 2026
- Release rings
- General Availability, Preview
- Clouds
- Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)