In Exchange 2010, we introduced the ability for discovery managers to search mailboxes across an Exchange 2010 organization using Multi-Mailbox Search. Along with Personal Archives, which allow you...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Are you going to fix the “Collect organizational Health” wizard? After 2 Service Packs and 13 Rollup Updates, the tool that provides information about the required CALs is calculating them wrong.If you decide to use the Multi-mailbox search (even when searching a single mailbox in ECP or EMS, you are using the multi-mailbox search), you need to be a member of the “Discovery Management” group, which is empty by default. If you add a member to the Discovery Management group and run the “Collect organizational Health” you will see, that without any prompts or warnings you need enterprise CALs for every mailbox. For example, if you have 1000 mailboxes with standard Exchange CALs, you will suddenly need 1000 Enterprise CALs, according to this tool. And that happens without running any searches.