Announcing a licensing change for Multi-Mailbox Search

In my opinion MS should require an Enterprise CAL only if added value is realized to end users. This is the case with UM and Personal Archives but not with multi-mailbox search, custom retention policies and per user/DL Journaling.

Will custom retention policies and per user/DL Journaling follow multi-mailbox license change?

Martijn

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.

@Phil: This is just for Multi-Mailbox Search.

Does this include the Legal Hold function as well or is it just the Multi-Mailbox Search feature?

personal archive would be great on a standard cal!!

@Gary: Mutli-Mailbox Search does not require Microsoft Outlook. Discovery managers use Exchange Control Panel (web-based) to perform discovery searches.

Will you still require the Office Pro Suite or will this also be relaxed to Office standard?