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Office 365 Litigation Hold Vs Retention Policy “A Comparison”

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Target Audience	Purchase / Admin
Categories	MS Office 365 / Azure
Read Time	2 minutes
Understand time including reading links	10 mins

	Litigation Hold	Retention Policy
Automatically Applied to all users	No, only manual application is allowed	Yes, can be applied to all or individual user
Features	Prevents a user from hard deleting emails and entire mailboxes	Prevents hard deletion of emails and entire mailboxes
Office 365 License	Exchange online plan 1 along with Exchange online Archiving (although it seems to work without EOA on Exchange online Plan 1). Exchange online plan 2 or higher	Exchange online plan 1 along with Exchange online Archiving (although it seems to work without EOA on Exchange online Plan 1). Exchange online plan 2 or higher
Easy recovery of deleted data	Yes	Yes
Limitations	A Limit cap of 1,000 mailboxes in one hold with a total limit of of 10,000 holds	A Limit cap of 10 companywide policies and 1000 specific polices per tenant is allowed
Permissions level to carry out tasks	E Discovery Manager role is required	E Discovery Manager role required
Advanced Search	Yes, Search for data from eDiscovery search or search mailbox command (users think they can delete data but once under hold, data is recoverable and is not deleted)	Yes, search for data from eDiscovery search or search mailbox command
How long it takes for changes to propagate	Up to 60 minutes to get hold fully functional	Up to 24 hours for a retention policy to start working

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Azure Categories Microsoft Categories Office 365 Categories Other litigation hold micorosft office 365 office 365 admin office365 retention policy

Azure Categories Microsoft Categories Office 365 Categories Other litigation hold micorosft office 365 office 365 admin office365 retention policy

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