M365 Changelog: Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management – New Graph APIs to apply

MC672527 – Retention labels can be applied to items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business programmatically today using CSOM and REST APIs. To offer more flexibility with our products and a more scalable solution, we’re excited to introduce these 4 new Microsoft Graph APIs:

• Set (apply) a retention label to items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business
• Get metadata information for the retention label applied to an item 
• Remove the retention label from the item 
• Lock and unlock record labels (records versioning) 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145118

When this will happen:

Preview: Microsoft will begin rolling out these changes to Microsoft Graph API beta in early September and should be fully available to customers by mid-September. 

Standard Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out to Microsoft Graph API v1 in early October and should be fully available to customers by mid-October. 

How this will affect your organization:

If you are using CSOM or REST APIs to apply and manage retention labels, Microsoft recommends using these new Graph APIs instead.

What you need to do to prepare:

No action is needed; however, you may want to communicate this new feature to the team responsible for Data Lifecycle and Records Management at your organization.  

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