This fall, Purdue IT will implement a new policy regarding the retention of chat messages within Microsoft Teams. To allow for further testing before the campuswide rollout, the new policy will first be implemented for Purdue IT employees, effective Sept. 5.
Under the new policy, messages will be deleted after a period of 400 days (1 year, 1 month, 5 days).
Note: This applies only to interpersonal chat messages and meeting chats. Teams channel messages will not be impacted.
Users will still have access to images, documents and attachments from past chats. These will be stored in the original OneDrive/SharePoint location or, for content that is dragged or copied into a chat, in the “Microsoft Teams Chat Files” folder.
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