Tag: Cloudy attachment

A reader asked if it’s possible to discover who made retention label assignments for SharePoint files. The Files Graph API can’t tell you who (or what policy) made retention label assignments, but it’s possible to find this information in the audit log and use that data to report the requested information. All with a few lines of PowerShell!

SharePoint generates document mismatch notifications when users create or update files with sensitivity labels that are higher than the site’s container label. Normally, everything works as planned, but if a tenant has a cloudy attachment auto-label retention policy, items can end up in site preservation hold libraries that generate document mismatches. The problem is that you can’t stop the mismatches!