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Microsoft 365 Retention Facts In this age of GDPR it is essential to create a policy for data retention.  In fact I would advise creating this policy as one of the first jobs to do before migrating data to Microsoft 365.  It's important that you have a consistent approach to data wherever you store it. One of the principles of GDPR is storage limitation.  Which is in essence not keeping data for longer than you require it for the purposes that is was intended and lawfully agreed to be used.  For more about GDPR take a look at the ICOs website: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/principles/ I've been asked a number of times now at the Microsoft 365 User Group www.m365ug.com and by colleagues about what data retention.  Specifically a question that pops up a few times is how retention works with deletion policies, what takes precedence? It's a good question but rest assured Microsoft h

Microsoft Threat Protection Is Microsoft Threat Protection (MTP) just another dashboard of many in Microsoft 365 or is it a viable unified security product? At Ignite 2018 Microsoft announced Microsoft Threat Protection.  A product that unites many of the existing and new security products available with the Microsoft 365 E5 license.  There have also been many changes to the Microsoft 365 security tool-set including Microsoft Defender ATP replacing Windows Defender ATP.  These changes and improvements are coming thick and fast and although Microsoft would say they aren't a security company (they obviously do lots of other business in Software and Cloud), I'd argue they are now one of the biggest companies that deal with enterprise security. MTP pulls data signals from all the other security solutions in Microsoft 365.  Providing an overlay of insights into the existing security products, effectively giving you one dashboard to begin reviewing your environment.  It co