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Teams compliance coverage on WindowsForum.com focuses on how Microsoft 365 retention and governance settings affect Microsoft Teams and adjacent workloads. A recurring theme is the October 2026 change in which legacy Teams retention policies will no longer implicitly govern Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions, converting existing policies to Teams-only scope. That separation can leave Copilot prompts and responses outside prior preservation and deletion schedules unless administrators configure a separate Copilot retention control. Discussion centers on roadmap item 571306, the risk of misreading the change as a naming cleanup, and the practical steps tenants should take to avoid compliance gaps.
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Loses Legacy Teams Retention in October

    Microsoft will stop letting legacy Microsoft Teams retention policies implicitly govern Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions in October 2026, creating a compliance gap for tenants that have relied on the old combined policy location without realizing it. Roadmap item 571306, published September...