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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies

In development Microsoft Purview Web

General availability: 2026-10
Preview: 2025-02
Added: 22 May 2024
Last modified: 08 Sep 2026 22:57 UTC
First archived: 25 Aug 2026
Release rings: General Availability, Preview
Clouds: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

Description

<p>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.</p>