Microsoft to Retire Legacy SharePoint Compliance Features (April 2026) – What You Must Do Now
Microsoft updated their roadmap to announce the retirement of some of the legacy records management capabilities found in Microsoft 365.
Upcoming changes for OneDrive Retention – implications for Records Managers
Microsoft has recently announced changes to the way that unlicensed OneDrive will be handled. These changes have implications for Records Managers which will need to be carefully considered when planning Microsoft 365 architecture due to the introduction of fees for archived OneDrive accounts.
Records Management migration considerations
This article is designed to help organisations who are planning migrations in records management scenarios.
Converting your retention schedule into a model of Microsoft 365 retention labels
While in theory it might be possible to translate a retention schedule into a model of retention labels entirely, we've found that pretty much every organisation needs to accept that changes will need to be made.
Default Sensitivity Labels are now available with the Microsoft 365 E5 licence
Microsoft has now included the ability to set a default sensitivity label within the E5 license (effectively making the ‘Microsoft Syntex Advanced Management’ license somewhat of an extension to E3).
How to work around the 2 biggest M365 records management challenges
The records management story within Microsoft 365 is still far from perfect. In this post, we concentrate on the two areas of Microsoft Purview Records Management that present the most significant opportunities for enhancement.
How to govern unstructured legacy content?
Your content is in a mess. (If you read that and disagree, then this blog post probably isn’t for you.)
New options for ending retention in Microsoft 365
For the past 5 years, the options that we’ve had at the end of retention have been fairly unchanged – but over the past couple of months, Microsoft has unveiled several new options.
We’ve answered all your questions about Microsoft Teams Governance & Information Management
We collected some of the most frequently asked questions from clients to share (anonymised) answers with a wider audience. Some of them are more specific and technical, while others are more generic.
BEIS Knowledge & Information Management team elected “Team of the Year”
We’re delighted to announce that the KIM team at BEIS has received the “Team of the Year” award, at the IRMS Conference for their highly successful Microsoft Teams governance programme.
Understanding Microsoft 365’s new Records Management Settings page
In this post, we discuss the settings provided on the Records Management Settings page and explain the effect of applying them in your tenant.
SharePoint Retention Labels align with OneDrive to use the Preservation Hold Library
A significant change to the way that Retention Labels work is being released across SharePoint Online this August, which will help to make the way that retention is applied to content far more consistent across M365.
How do you solve a problem like Microsoft Teams Chat and Post retention?
In this blog we explore approaches provided in Microsoft 365 for managing Microsoft Teams Chat and Channel Posts as records.
Dynamic retention policies: introducing Adaptive Scopes
While much of the excitement around today’s announcement of new Microsoft 365 records management capabilities will focus on Multi-Staged Disposition Review, it’s certainly worth making sure that you don’t overlook Adaptive Scopes.
Introducing multi-staged disposition
Today’s announcement of the new Multi-Staged Disposition capabilities is a huge step forwards for the retention capabilities in Microsoft 365.
Rob Bath – IRMS Bulletin Author of the Year
We’re delighted to announce that Rob Bath, Intelogy’s Knowledge & Information Management practice lead has won the IRMS Bulletin Author of the Year at last night’s IRMS Awards.
The extended scope of retention in Microsoft 365
While it’s been on the Microsoft 365 roadmap for a while now, I’m delighted that we finally have the ability to use the Compliance Center’s retention capabilities in Yammer. Specifically...
A quick look at the new Regulatory Record Labels
One of the newer Microsoft 365 capabilities introduced at the Ignite 2020 conference this week is ‘Regulatory Record Labels’...
Better together: AI and Knowledge Managers
While AI offers huge potential, I feel many fear it’s arrival might devalue or even negate the hard work that they put in. This blog post is my attempt to put these fears to rest...
Introducing SharePoint Syntex: Form Processing and Document Understanding
Following its formal introduction at Microsoft’s Ignite 2020 conference, we are finally able to talk publicly about SharePoint Syntex...
Retention in Microsoft Teams
With millions of new users this year, Teams has quickly become one of the most important information storage applications in many organisations...
Microsoft Teams – temporary or perpetual?
I’m sure that most of you will have probably heard about the success of Microsoft Teams this year. It’s reporting exponential growth in usage; climbing from 13 million active users...
Questions from “Records and Governance in Microsoft Teams” webinar with Rob Bath
Rob Bath answered all the questions from his last webinar hosted by the IRMS on June 10.
Triggering retention in Microsoft 365
When I speak to people outside of the Information Governance community about retention periods, they often think that I’m talking about the length of time before information should be deleted - but this is only half of the story. Retention periods aren’t only about the timely deletion...
Microsoft 365 – Records Management vs. Information Governance
Microsoft has been investing a lot of effort over the past 12 months into porting functionality from their legacy ‘Office 365 Security and Compliance Center’ into the new, separate ‘Microsoft 365 Security Center’ and ‘Microsoft 365...
Project Cortex – what is it and how will it transform productivity?
It’s not easy to emphasise just how much of a step-change Project Cortex provides; it really could well be the most significant addition to Office 365 we’ve seen in years.
Office 365 – New Records Management
Over the past few months, the observant amongst you will have noticed the new ‘Records management’ section appear within Office 365’s Security & Compliance Center. This area collates some of the core EDRM functionality provided by Office 365 into a new shared space, providing a logical home for records management within Office 365, which I imagine will grow over time.
How to govern Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is rapidly becoming a central part of the collaboration story within many organisations. As a direct replacement for Skype for Business, it’s obvious to see why.
Information Management Survey 2019
Intelogy is running a short survey to learn more about the challenges facing Information Managers. We'd welcome your input.
Are Content Types Dying?
Content Types have been an integral part of pretty much every SharePoint solution I’ve overseen in the past decade or so, whether enterprise-scale intranet, custom application, or records management system. As such, I felt that it was essential to evaluate the evidence and read the tea leaves for myself.