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How do I enable litigation hold in Office 365 using Powershell?

How do I enable litigation hold in Office 365 using Powershell?

How do you know this worked?

  1. Go to Recipients > Mailboxes.
  2. In the list of user mailboxes, click the mailbox that you want to verify Litigation Hold settings for, and then click Edit .
  3. On the mailbox properties page, click Mailbox features.
  4. Under Litigation hold, verify that hold is enabled.

How do I turn off place hold in Office 365 Powershell?

Use the EAC to remove an In-Place Hold

  1. Navigate to Compliance management > In-Place eDiscovery & hold.
  2. In the list view, select the In-Place Hold you want to remove and then click Edit .

How do you add a litigation hold?

Go to https://admin.microsoft.com and sign in.

  1. In the navigation pane of the admin center, click Users > Active users.
  2. Select the user that you want to place on Litigation hold.
  3. On the properties flyout page, click the Mail tab, and then under More actions, click Manage litigation hold.

How do I enable litigation hold on a shared mailbox?

if you want to enable… a Litigation Hold on a shared mailbox, you must assign an Exchange Online Plan 1 with Exchange Online Archiving or Exchange Online Plan 2 license to the mailbox.

What is the legal hold of m365?

An Office 365 litigation hold suspends any retention policy or automatic deletion for a given mailbox so that no ESI can be removed from the mailbox. Important: To be put on litigation hold, a mailbox must be assigned either an Exchange Online Plan 2 license or a separate Exchange Online Archiving license.

What is the difference between inplace hold and litigation hold?

Whereas In-Place Hold provides granular hold capability based on query parameters and the ability to place multiple holds, Litigation Hold only allows you to place all items on hold. You can also specify a duration period to hold items when a mailbox is placed on Litigation Hold.

How do I turn off place hold in Office 365?

Remove an In-Place Hold

  1. Go to Compliance management > In-Place eDiscovery & Hold.
  2. In the list view, select the In-Place Hold you want to remove, and then click Edit .

What is the difference between inplace hold and Litigation Hold?

What is Microsoft 365 litigation hold?

How do I turn off retention hold in Office 365?

Click the Management tab. Select Microsoft 365 Management in the left pane. Then click the enable/disable litigation hold link located under Mailbox Management.

How do I get my mailbox back from litigation hold?

Restore the archive from an inactive mailbox

  1. Create a variable that contains the properties of the inactive mailbox. PowerShell Copy.
  2. Restore the contents of the archive from the inactive mailbox (source archive) to the archive of an existing mailbox (target archive).

What is the legal hold process?

A legal hold is a process that an organization uses to preserve all forms of potentially relevant information when litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated. Legal holds can encompass business procedures affecting active data, including backup tape recycling.

What does Office 365 litigation hold with PowerShell do?

Office 365 Litigation Hold with Powershell. Litigation Hold is a feature that is needed to keep the company’s data on mailboxes as long as it is needed for legal purposes. Below is the explanation given by Microsoft.

When to use in place hold report in Office 365?

Using our In-Place hold report, the administrators can identify the mailboxes without holds and enable the holds appropriately. Also, the administrator can use the report to ensure that the email content is retained in an immutable way, free from automated deletion mechanisms (e.g., MRM) and user deletion interferences.

How to put a user on litigation hold?

Select the user that you want to place on Litigation hold. On the properties flyout page, click the Mail tab, and then under More actions, click Manage litigation hold. On the Manage litigation hold flyout page, select the Turn on litigation hold checkbox and then enter the following optional information:

Where to find mailbox hold status in Office 365?

Follow the navigations below. Find all Litigation holds: In the EAC, go to ‘Recipients’ and click on ‘Mailboxes’. Click on ‘Choose columns’ and select ‘Litigation hold enabled’. You can see the hold status. The Major user complaint here is, you cannot find status and hold details as an aggregated report anywhere in the EAC.

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