Today, there is not a way to remove retention policies or labels (called a hold in Exchange) from items in inactive mailboxes in bulk. Now we are introducing a PowerShell cmdlet that enables retention policies or labels to be removed in bulk from these items. This removal will not affect legal holds.
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Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-New cmdlet to remove retention from inactive mailboxes
- General availability
- 2025-12
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- Added
- 05 Dec 2025
- Last modified
- 13 Feb 2026 23:15 UTC
- First archived
- 25 Aug 2026
- Release rings
- General Availability
- Clouds
- Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD