How the Auto-label Policy for Cloudy Attachments Works

Cloudy attachments are links to files sent in messages. An auto-label policy can capture copies of cloudy attachments and make them available for eDiscovery. Sounds good, but you need Office 365 E5 or above licenses to use an auto-label policy and Purview eDiscovery (premium). Even so, it’s a nice example of applying technology to solve a problem, even if it does use up some valuable SharePoint Online storage quota.

Entra ID Administrative Units and Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management

Microsoft Purview data lifecycle management (retention labels and policies) support Azure AD administrative units to scope the set of objects that compliance administrators can manage. Administrative units can be used with data lifecycle management, data loss prevention (DLP), and information protection (sensitivity labels). You’ll need Microsoft 365 E5 licenses (or equivalents) to manage the policies, but that shouldn’t be an issue for the kind of enterprise tenants Microsoft is targeting this functionality at.