Comments on: Comparing Shared and Inactive Mailboxes for Retaining Ex-Employee Content

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:46:13 +0000

In reply to Max. Litigation hold is a form of retention policy applied by Exchange Online. The hold release is controlled by the LitigationHoldEnabled setting (it's generation one compliance technology), but the point is that ligitation hold can hold mailboxes as inactive for as long as the hold exists.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:29:55 +0000

Does “litigation hold” fall under the term “retention policy”? If so, be aware that inactive mailboxes with a fixed LitigationHoldDuration are NOT automatically deleted after the litigation duration has expired. You have to set LitigationHoldEnabled to $false on the inactive mailbox. After that ExO removes the mailbox after the 30 days soft-deleted period automatically.