Find stale data with eDiscovery
Finding stale data with eDiscovery in Microsoft Purview. One case called Stale data, with two searches: SharePoint and OneDrive sites only, and Exchange mailboxes only. A Date condition before 1 January 2020, statistics with sensitive information types, and a top 100 report of locations as CSV, where OneDrive sites are easy to tell apart from shared sites. The result is a cleanup list before Copilot is rolled out.
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EDISCOVERY · KNOW YOUR DATA
Find stale data with eDiscovery
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WHY STALE DATA MATTERS
Old data is still data
Files nobody has touched in years take up storage,
and you pay to back them up. Why back up what nobody needs?
They still carry risk, and Copilot can still find them.
A good data foundation starts with knowing what to delete.
THE PLAN
One case, two searches
Separate searches give separate, cleaner reports.
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FROM REPORT TO CLEANUP
Who cleans up what
A retention policy that deletes content past a set age keeps it that way.
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EDISCOVERY · KNOW YOUR DATA
Find stale data with eDiscovery
One eDiscovery case, two searches. We find
everything in SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange
that is older than 2020, and turn the top 100 into
a cleanup list for site owners and users.
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