Hello, and welcome to configuring and managing retention with file plans in Microsoft 365. My name is Lee Mucciarone, and I'm a Microsoft 365 content creator for Cloud Academy. I have four years of IT experience working for Microsoft, with two years of specialized experience as a customer training specialist, training users on Microsoft tools. Microsoft Purview provides organizations with the tools they need to properly govern and manage their data. Between data lifecycle management and records management, organizations are empowered with a plethora of tools at their disposal. 

File plan is one such of these tools that provides a comprehensive and streamlined tool for managing your business data. By enabling organizations with an easy-to-navigate dashboard, detailed label settings, and detailed label analytics, it makes managing your organization's retention labels easy. Today, we'll be going over how to configure and manage retention within the file plan tool. Specifically, we'll be going over how to use file plan to create retention labels, how to manage retention requirements with file plan, and how to configure automatic retention with file plan descriptors. With that quick introduction out of the way, let's jump into a quick overview of records management within Microsoft Purview.