alt Hacker News> Let me paint a familiar picture. Someone leaves your organisation, or a licence gets removed as part of a cost-saving exercise.
That's a rather weird way of phrasing it. It almost suggested that you shouldn't audit your license needs.
Other than this was always the case, it's hard to see why data stored in a close account wouldn't get deleted.
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It's LLM phraseology.
It comes up with a scenario where it could be a problem ( license removal ), and then it generates why a license might get removed ( "cost-saving" ).
It's not a person thinking, so there's no real thought to whether it is really a likely scenario, it's just something that sounds plausible.
I read too many blogs, I've come to spot these phrases that trip a feeling of, "Wait, do people really do that?".
You'll still have someone along in the comments to suggest that this article isn't AI slop, and that people really do remove individual one-drive licenses from active people in an organisation to cut costs, that this is just "edited" by AI, etc.
But it's slop from start to finish. Or in LLM speak, "The slop is real".
Also the deletion will kick in after 12 months
> Day 1: licence removed or user deleted: The clock starts. The OneDrive account is now unlicensed and the retention countdown begins.
> Day 60: read-only mode: No more edits.
So yeah if you spend 12 months without realizing you might need the data of someone who left then I think that's on you
> Someone leaves your organisation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/retention-and-d...
"By default, when a user is deleted, the user's manager is automatically given access to the user's OneDrive"
Seems like it should be enough time to firesale the data out you need as a manager.
> or a licence gets removed as part of
Or, as is more common in large enterprise licensing schemes - the vendor changes the terms and the customer never notices. And the .gov side of Microsoft licensing changes as often and as inscrutably as the commercial side of Microsoft licensing.
We've had more than a few discussions where conference calls with Microsoft end with the "oh, that used to be part of your license, but now it isn't" with the only solution being to bend over and open up the agency's wallet.