
You can use a retention policy to retain data from community messages and user messages in Yammer, and delete these messages. Use this section to understand how your compliance requirements are met by backend storage and processes, and should be verified by eDiscovery tools rather than by messages that are currently visible in the Yammer app. These items have their own retention policies. Reactions from others in the form of emoticons are not retained when you use retention policies for Yammer.įiles that you use with Yammer aren't included in retention policies for Yammer. User messages include all the names of the people in the conversation, and community messages include the community name and the message title (if supplied). Yammer user messages and community messages can be deleted by using retention policies for Yammer, and in addition to the text in these messages, the following items can be retained for compliance reasons: Hypertext links and links to other Yammer messages.Īs explained in the following section, user messages include private messages for an individual user, and any community messages associated with that user. What's included for retention and deletion

The information in this article supplements Learn about retention because it has information that's specific to Yammer.

Microsoft 365 licensing guidance for security & compliance. Learn about retention policies that apply to Yammer.
