Configuring litigation holds to preserve Office 365 data
The requirement to preserve electronically stored information is something that compliance administrators in any organization need to be prepared for. In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold are features that enable you to achieve the following:
- Place user mailboxes on hold
- Immutably preserve mailbox items
- Preserve mailbox content deleted by users
Important note
As of April 2020, the ability to create new in-place holds will be removed by Microsoft. From July 2020, the ability to manage existing in-place holds will also be removed. Therefore, in this section, we will only examine the process of configuring litigation holds
Litigation Hold
With Litigation Hold, you can preserve the content of your users' mailboxes. The preservation of content applies not only to the users' inbox and sent items but also to their deleted items and to the original versions of any items that may have been modified. Should...
