Exchange 2013: Enable In-Place eDiscovery and In-Place Hold
Microsoft is taking every step to improve exchange server security related challenges. With Exchange 2013, Microsoft have taken compliance features like eDiscovery and hold to the next level.
Let’s take a look at how to enable the feature and work with it.
Open Exchange management shell
Run the cmd to check the current status of the litigation hold
Get-mailbox –identity alias | FL *hold*
You will see the below window
Open Exchange Admin Center and login with at least Compliance Administrator.
Click on Compliance management
Click + to add a new in-place discovery & hold
Type a name then click next.
On the next window click + to add the user, then add the users on which you would like to apply discovery and hold. Click add then ok.
Click next
You might like to select some options here or run discovery against whole mailbox
Also review the select message types
Click ok then next
On new in-place discovery & hold page either select “hold indefinitely” or specify number of days
Then click finish
You will see below message when hold will be created.
Now click on the refresh sign to check the discovery search results
You will see the below result
Click on view Statistics to see more detailed result
Click zoom glass and select Preview search results
Now login with the compliance officer id and check the discover search results
Go back to the exchange management shell and run the following cmd to check the hold
Now you will see the in-place hold guid will show up here
Run the following cmds to check the in-place hold configurations
$user = Get-mail – id username
Get-mailboxsearch –InPlaceHoldIdentity $user.inplaceholds
You will see the below configuration items will show up.
Prabhat Nigam
Team @MSExchangeGuru
