Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Placing mailboxes on in-place hold or litigation hold

When an organization is dealing with the possibility of a legal action, data such as documents and email messages related to the case will usually need to be reviewed, and an effort to preserve this information must be made. Exchange 2016 allows you to protect and maintain this data by placing mailboxes on In-Place Hold or on Litigation 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 hold settings for mailboxes from the Exchange Management Shell.

Litigation hold was introduced in Exchange 2010, and it still remains in Exchange 2016. Although it is ...