Replacing Litigation Holds with Microsoft 365 Retention Policies

Litigation holds can retain mailbox data, but that’s it. You can swap litigation holds out for a Microsoft 365 retention policy and gain extra functionality, such as retaining OneDrive for Business content for the mailbox owners. It’s easy to script the transition from litigation holds to retention policy using PowerShell and to show how, we include a fully working script.

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