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Updated: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: New secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies

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Microsoft Purview
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392838

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  • Seen 14 Aug 2025 late September 2025, mid-October 2025
  • Seen 17 Mar 2025 late March 2025, mid-April 2025 → late September 2025, mid-October 2025
  • Seen 7 Feb 2025 early February 2025, mid-February 2025 → late February 2025, mid-March 2025, late March 2025, mid-April 2025

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Updated August 18, 2025: After further review, this has been delayed to a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. This new feature enables data governance administrators to expedite the permanent deletion of sensitive content from Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, overriding any existing retention settings or eDiscovery holds. This process may be required for security or privacy, such as after a data spillage incident or for compliance and regulatory requirements. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392838. When this will happen: Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late February 2025 (previously early February) and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (previously mid-February). Worldwide: We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed.  How this will affect your organization: Priority Cleanup administrators can now set up a Priority Cleanup policy for Exchange to create exceptions to retention principles and e-Discovery holds for specific scenarios. Once administrators are within the Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) Solution on Microsoft Purview, they can visit the Priority Cleanup tab and follow the wizard to set-up this policy. Like auto-apply retention labels, Priority Cleanup supports policy simulation mode, so administrators can check the returned samples in case the policy configuration needs any fine-tuning before enabling the policy. Once set-up, because the deletion by a priority cleanup policy is irreversible and can override existing holds, the process requires multiple approvals, specific roles, and is audited. Thus, respective reviewers must be mandatorily added during policy creation to allow for disposition of items under a retention or e-Discovery hold.  What you need to do to prepare: Because of the built-in safeguards, the feature itself is enabled by default at the tenant level. However, Priority Cleanup can be turned off on the Priority Cleanup settings page. If you can't create new Priority Cleanup policies, refer to your Data Lifecycle Management documentation for necessary roles and permissions requirements. A new role permission "Priority cleanup administrator" is now added to Purview role permissions to enable data governance administrators to use this feature.

What changed

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  1. Updated August 14,18, 2025: After further review we have decided notreview, this has been delayed to proceed with this change at this time.a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience. This new feature enables data governance administrators …

    • Title Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: New secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies → Updated: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: New secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies

  3. Updated March 17,August 14, 2025: WeAfter further review we have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank youdecided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for your patience.any inconvenience. This new feature enables data governance administrators to expedite the permanent deletion … and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (previously mid-February). Worldwide: We will begin rolling out late September 2025 (previously late March) and expect communicate via Message center when we are ready to complete by mid-October 2025 (previously mid-April). proceed.  How this will affect your organization: Priority Cleanup administrators can now set …

  4. Updated February 7,March 17, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your … by mid-March 2025 (previously mid-February). Worldwide: We will begin rolling out late MarchSeptember 2025 (previously late March) and expect to complete by mid-April 2025.  mid-October 2025 (previously mid-April). How this will affect your organization: Priority Cleanup administrators can now set …

    • Tags New feature, Admin impact → Updated message, New feature, Admin impact

    Updated February 7, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new feature enables data governance administrators to expedite the permanent deletion … 392838. When this will happen: Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late February 2025 (previously early FebruaryFebruary) and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (previously mid-February). Worldwide: We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-Februarymid-April 2025.   How this will affect your organization: Priority Cleanup administrators can now set …

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