{"id":7135,"date":"2023-07-05T03:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2023-07-05T03:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T03:09:01","slug":"office-365-purview-retaining-logs-for-all-users-over-90-days-with-only-a-single-e5-user-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/office-365-purview-retaining-logs-for-all-users-over-90-days-with-only-a-single-e5-user-license","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 Purview Retaining Logs for All Users over 90 days with only a single E5 User License"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The documented Approach to retaining Audit logs for User over the default 90 days is : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/compliance\/audit-log-retention-policies?view=o365-worldwide\">Manage audit log retention policies &#8211; Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The default audit log retention policy only applies to audit records for activity performed by users who are <strong>assigned an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 E5 license or have a Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance or E5 eDiscovery and Audit add-on license<\/strong>. If you have non-E5 users or guest users in your organization, their corresponding audit records are retained for 90 days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We only had a Single user for testing with a Microsoft 365 E5 license , however, confirmed that Audit Log history for ALL users was being retained over the 90 days with a 1 year retention policy being set to the tenancy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft confirmed via s support ticket that this is a known issue as if a single user has the E5 license, it is applied\u00a0tenant wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documented Approach to retaining Audit logs for User over the default 90 days is : Manage audit log retention policies &#8211; Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4262,4263,4264,2548,4260],"class_list":["post-7135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-1-user","tag-1-year","tag-90-days","tag-audit","tag-premium"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7136,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}