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Priority Cleanup for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Is Generally Available
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Priority Cleanup for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Is Generally Available

Priority cleanup is a Microsoft Purview solution that allows tenants to remove items even when the items are subject to retention hold. That sounds like Priority cleanup goes against the nature of data governance, but sometimes it's more important to remove items than to keep them for their full retention period. This article explains how Priority Cleanup works and some of the important concepts that you need to master before removing anything.

January 5, 2026

How Microsoft Put Purview Priority Cleanup Together and How it Works

For years, Microsoft has told us that items held by retention policies or eDiscovery holds are immutable and cannot be removed. Well, that's not quite the case as proven by the launch of the Purview Priority Cleanup solution, which is able to find and remove held items (only in Exchange Online for now). There's lots of interesting technology to discuss, but I wonder if Priority Cleanup is too complex and a tad slow to succeed.

March 25, 2025