Introduction

In many companies, e-mail is the most commonly used way of communicating with one another. As a result, a lot of a company's intellectual property is sent with and stored within Exchange. Not taking measures to secure the environment would pose a potential threat to your data as it could leave the door open for possible data leakage.

If you're dealing with personal or financial information of third-parties, leaking data, whether it is accidentally or on purpose, could have serious legal consequences. Microsoft realizes that in this modern world of digital communication, Exchange needs to be able to handle all sorts of threats. That is why over the past few years Microsoft has invested a lot of time and effort in developing and improving native protection features that can help you secure your data against different types of threats.

To meet regulatory requirements towards data retention, In-Place archiving and In-Place Hold allow you to control how long to keep data: for a specific...