Placing mailboxes on In-Place Hold

When an organization is dealing with the possibility of a legal action, data such as documents and e-mail messages related to the case will usually need to be reviewed, and an effort to preserve this information must be made. Exchange 2013 allows you to protect and maintain this data by placing mailboxes on In-Place Hold. This prevents users or retention policies from modifying or removing any messages that may be required during the legal discovery process. In this recipe, you'll learn how to manage In-Place Hold settings for mailboxes from the Exchange Management Shell.

Note

Litigation hold was introduced in Exchange 2010, and it still remains in Exchange 2013. However, it's recommended that you use the In-Place Hold feature instead, which is more developed than litigation hold.

How to do it...

Let's see how to place a mailbox on In-Place Hold using the following steps:

1. To place a mailbox on In-Place Hold, use the New-MailboxSearch cmdlet:

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