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What are best practices regarding employee attrition and data retention for Office 365?

When an employee leaves the company, what are the recommended procedures regarding their data stored on One Drive, Sharepoint and Exchange? Can the data be moved onsite and archived? Can others be given access to the data?
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Thank you so much!
I think you should  adopt the retention policy that are generally laid for exchange server and the best practice are different from user to user having own RTO and RPO objectives.

To examine data storage technologies and solutions that are best for all businesses and deals some best practices for ensuring the successful data recovery and backup required to sustain operations - regardless of what happens to your business.

To meet growing demand of data storage without suffering over repeated upgrade problems, it is a advise to stop and carefully review:
1.      Current and anticipated storage requirements
2.      Data protection and backup needs
3.      Tape-based backup
4.      Exchange mailbox databases
5.      Backup Restoration Testing
•      Databases restore testing
•      Validating restores where possible
•      Refreshing non production databases from production backups
•      Actual restores
•      Strategy to recover from database corruption
6.      Develop a comprehensive backup plan
•      Decide what needs to be backed up such as password, RDBMS software, OS software etc.
•      Determine the appropriate backup type to use for your data like Oracle or SQL database.
•      Establish an appropriate backup schedule and window
      
Also do a dry run of the backup process so that you know what are the weakest link that might hamper during your backup process.