Data Lifecycle Management: Separate Copilot retention policies from Teams chats

In a previous post I mentioned how Microsoft is adding the capability to use Purview Data Loss Prevention on Copilot to block certain information from surfacing for the user. Now, Microsoft is adding Copilot to it's retention policy controls, and starting mid-February, public preview tenants can start exploringthis new feature. Admins will be able to create separate retention policies for Microsoft Teams chats and Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions, and allows for a more tailored data management. The feature will of course require that the targeted users have Microsoft 365 Copilot license.  According to the message center, the public preview will be during February, and we can hope for a general release sometime in March. The feature will be available by default, but policies will have to be set up.

Restore a single Lync server from CsConfiguration Backup

In my previous video, I restored the entire CsConfiguration in order to recreate the correct SimpleURLs. In the following video I am showing how you may restore the configuration to a single Lync server, which has been taken offline. The backup was with the Lync 2013 backup script v3.5

The video has been trimmed to about 8 minutes long, and shows a restore of in my lab. The trimming has been done to shorten the time I had to wait through bootstrapper. It has no sound, but the CC will explain what's going on.


The important giveaways from this movie should be:
  • Permissions required to run Lync commands
  • Things to look out for
    • Use -LocalStore when targeting a single computer
  • A quick troubleshooting (where to find the logs)
As always, you can find the script right here.