Purpose tags give you visibility on the business purpose of teams and groups in your environment and help you to assign the right governance policies.

Create purpose tags that are suited to the types of work being done in your organization. Apply purpose tags to teams and groups yourself or use ShareGate to collaborate with owners on your behalf.

Create purpose tags specific to your Microsoft environment, then use them to identify and manage your teams and groups.

For details, see Create and edit purpose tags.

Let owners choose the purpose tag that they feel best represents the business purpose of the teams and groups they create. ShareGate can collaborate directly with team and group owners on your behalf, giving you visibility and saving you time.

Or, you can take control of your environment by manually applying purpose tags to teams and groups.

For more information on automated and manual methods, see Apply purpose tags.

Apply a custom inactivity threshold to purpose tags to ensure that the time a team or group can be inactive in your environment aligns with its business.

For more information, see Create and edit purpose tags.

Note: Purpose tag inactivity thresholds take priority over your inactivity detection policy threshold.
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For example, if your tenant's inactivity detection threshold is 90 days, and you create a purpose tag with a threshold of 30 days. After 30 days of inactivity, all teams/groups with that purpose tag will be considered inactive.

You can stay up-to-date on how purpose tags are being used in your environment from the Manage page, Dashboard, and Activity.

For more information, see Monitor purpose tags.