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eDiscovery hold vs Litigation hold
Dear All, As for company policy, we need to keep all emails forever even it was deleted by user. So that we can retrieve the whole mailbox for court case in future. However, as long as I know, ther...
In a nutshell, litigation hold is mailbox-wide, and by default indefinite. In-place hold (as configured by eDiscovery) can target only specific messages, based on variety of criteria. While it's more flexible, it's a lot harder to manage, compared to just using a simple Set-Mailbox user@domain.com -LitigationHoldEnabled $true cmdlet for litigation hold.
Both can however be used to preserve data in order to meet compliance/regulatory requirements.
