Microsoft Information Governance
Use Microsoft Information Governance capabilities to govern your data for compliance or regulatory requirements.
From a licensing perspective, there can be considerable overlap between information governance, records management, and data connectors. All three areas support retention and deletion of data in Microsoft 365. Connectors are used by compliance solutions other than information governance and records management.
Use the following graphic to help you identify the main configurable components for these three different solutions that each have their own node in the compliance center:
Information Governance Capabilities
Retention policies for Microsoft 365 workloads, with retention labels for exceptions
Retain or delete content with policy management for email, documents, Teams and Yammer messages
Archive mailboxes
Provides users with additional mailbox storage space
Inactive mailboxes
Retain mailbox content after employees leave the organization so that this content remains accessible to administrators, compliance officers, and records managers
Import service for PST files
Bulk-import PST files to Exchange Online mailboxes to retain and search email messages for compliance or regulatory requirements
Records Management Capability
Records management
A single solution for email and documents that incorporates flexible retention and deletion schedules and requirements to support the full lifecycle of your content with records declaration and defensible disposition when needed
Connectors for third-party data
Data connectors
Import, archive, and apply compliance solutions to third-party data from social media platforms, instant messaging platforms, and document collaboration platforms