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Best Practice - Retaining Mailboxes Exchange Online
I have read that there are a number of ways to retain a users mailboxes when they leave the business, Inactive, In-Place Hold, Litigation Hold. Does anyone have any real life examples of how the...
TonyRedmond Have you heard of large organizations placing all mailboxes on litigation hold and enable auto-archiving on all mailboxes as to avoid issue with mailboxes reaching max capacity? Pros/cons?
You can use litigation or in place- hold and then use inactive mailboxes when users leave!
Read up on difference between those two here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/security-and-compliance/in-place-and-litigation-holds
About inactive mailboxes feature:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/create-and-manage-inactive-mailboxes
Many converts user mailboxes to shared mailboxes instead. Read a comparison here:
https://practical365.com/exchange-online/shared-mailboxes-vs-inactive-mailboxes-departed-users/
Adam
Read up on difference between those two here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/security-and-compliance/in-place-and-litigation-holds
About inactive mailboxes feature:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/create-and-manage-inactive-mailboxes
Many converts user mailboxes to shared mailboxes instead. Read a comparison here:
https://practical365.com/exchange-online/shared-mailboxes-vs-inactive-mailboxes-departed-users/
Adam