Records management and compliance in SharePoint Server 2013

The records management and compliance features in SharePoint Server 2013 provide improved ways to help you protect your business. The records archive and in-place record retention from earlier versions of SharePoint Server are still supported. SharePoint Server 2013 adds retention policies that are applied at the level of a site.

Site-based retention

Compliance features of SharePoint Server 2013 have been extended to sites. You can create and manage retention policies in SharePoint Server 2013, and the policies will apply to SharePoint sites and any Exchange Server 2013 team mailboxes that are associated with the sites.
Compliance officers create policies, which define the following:

• The retention policy for the whole site and the team mailbox, if one is associated with the site.
  
• What causes a project to be closed.
  
• When a project should expire.