Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management– Hard delete capability for OneDrive and SharePoint through secure priority cleanup workflows

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1. 5 Nov 2026 · 18:04:05 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
2. 5 Nov 2026 · 17:01:08 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
3. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Last changed9 Mar 2026 23:15 UTC → 26 Oct 2026 23:15 UTC
4. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Preview targetNot stated → August CY2026
5. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC General availability targetNot stated → November CY2026
6. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Source coverage: merill-message-center-archiveCurrent → Not collected
7. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent
8. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Link: Microsoft Purview/roadmap?topic=Microsoft%20Purview&period=all#items → No longer listed in this observation
9. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Link: Purview/roadmap?topic=Purview&period=all#items
10. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC Link: Microsoft roadmap entryhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=558343
11. 4 Nov 2026 · 15:02:25 UTC SummaryData Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations.  Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins. → Data Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations. Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins.
12. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Last changed26 Oct 2026 23:15 UTC → 9 Mar 2026 23:15 UTC
13. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Preview targetAugust CY2026 → Not stated
14. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC General availability targetNovember CY2026 → Not stated
15. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Not collected
16. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Source coverage: merill-message-center-archiveCurrent
17. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Link: Purview/roadmap?topic=Purview&period=all#items → No longer listed in this observation
18. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Link: Microsoft roadmap entryhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=558343 → No longer listed in this observation
19. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC Link: Microsoft Purview/roadmap?topic=Microsoft%20Purview&period=all#items
20. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:26:53 UTC SummaryData Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations. Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins. → Data Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations.  Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins.
21. 4 Nov 2026 · 13:10:08 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
22. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Last changed9 Mar 2026 23:15 UTC → 26 Oct 2026 23:15 UTC
23. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Preview targetNot stated → August CY2026
24. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC General availability targetNot stated → November CY2026
25. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Source coverage: merill-message-center-archiveCurrent → Not collected
26. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent
27. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Link: Microsoft Purview/roadmap?topic=Microsoft%20Purview&period=all#items → No longer listed in this observation
28. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Link: Purview/roadmap?topic=Purview&period=all#items
29. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC Link: Microsoft roadmap entryhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=558343
30. 4 Nov 2026 · 11:04:04 UTC SummaryData Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations.  Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins. → Data Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations. Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins.
31. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Last changed26 Oct 2026 23:15 UTC → 9 Mar 2026 23:15 UTC
32. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Preview targetAugust CY2026 → Not stated
33. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC General availability targetNovember CY2026 → Not stated
34. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Not collected
35. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Source coverage: merill-message-center-archiveCurrent
36. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Link: Purview/roadmap?topic=Purview&period=all#items → No longer listed in this observation
37. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Link: Microsoft roadmap entryhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=558343 → No longer listed in this observation
38. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC Link: Microsoft Purview/roadmap?topic=Microsoft%20Purview&period=all#items
39. 4 Nov 2026 · 10:01:18 UTC SummaryData Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations. Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins. → Data Lifecycle Management allows compliance admins to retain, review and delete content in M365 workloads. Deletion of content to adhere to compliance requirements, admins can set up Retention policies or labels. To help prevent inadvertent data loss, M365 retention labels policies and M365 retention policies do not hard delete content immediately and keeps the data in Recycle Bins for 93 days for ODSP. Hard delete itself is a very costly process as it opens Microsoft to heavy legal implications in case of any data loss incident that may occur due to a misconfigured policy or regression. Priority Cleanup feature allows users to bypass retention, and eDiscovery holds to help customers comply to changing legal/compliance requirements or manage data spillage scenarios. This feature requires the ability to hard delete specific files from the scoped locations.  Ability to select hard delete configuration for a Priority cleanup policy for OneDrive and SharePoint content and skip recycle bins.
40. 4 Nov 2026 · 07:16:39 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
41. 3 Nov 2026 · 10:16:39 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
42. 3 Nov 2026 · 09:13:39 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
43. 28 Oct 2026 · 08:37:56 UTC Link: Microsoft roadmap entryhttps://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=558343 → https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=558343
44. 27 Oct 2026 · 00:27:28 UTC Last changed19 Aug 2026 22:58 UTC → 26 Oct 2026 23:15 UTC
45. 27 Oct 2026 · 00:27:28 UTC General availability targetSeptember CY2026 → November CY2026
46. 26 Oct 2026 · 18:49:55 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
47. 26 Oct 2026 · 17:48:57 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
48. 26 Oct 2026 · 06:24:14 UTC Link: Microsoft 365 Message Center Archive by Merill Fernandohttps://mc.merill.net/message/RM558343
49. 25 Oct 2026 · 20:06:13 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
50. 25 Oct 2026 · 18:13:50 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
51. 24 Oct 2026 · 11:31:34 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
52. 24 Oct 2026 · 09:51:08 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
53. 23 Oct 2026 · 09:33:49 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
54. 23 Oct 2026 · 08:31:50 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
55. 22 Oct 2026 · 18:42:24 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
56. 22 Oct 2026 · 17:41:25 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
57. 21 Oct 2026 · 20:45:25 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
58. 21 Oct 2026 · 19:44:24 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
59. 18 Oct 2026 · 14:54:30 UTC Link: Purview/roadmap?topic=Purview&period=all#items
60. 15 Oct 2026 · 14:22:54 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
61. 15 Oct 2026 · 13:21:54 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
62. 15 Oct 2026 · 12:20:54 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
63. 15 Oct 2026 · 11:19:54 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete
64. 14 Oct 2026 · 11:54:40 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapIncomplete → Current
65. 14 Oct 2026 · 11:22:42 UTC Source coverage: microsoft-365-roadmapCurrent → Incomplete