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Granting access to messages under retention policies within Exchange Online
Within Microsoft 365/Exchange Online, how (and where exactly) could you grant an auditor read only access so they can view copies of messages in Exchange Online that are subject to a specific retenti...
- Have you looked at the eDiscovery solution within O365? It pretty much checks all the boxes above. You can create "cases" that cover specific messages (based on a search criteria) within specific mailboxes, make sure that any matching content is preserved immutably and delegate specific users permissions to run such queries and review any messages found. In addition, you can also configure the so-called "compliance permission filters" to ensure that the auditors can never look into mailboxes they're not supposed to, or even apply a query-based criteria to limit it to matching messages only.
You definitely dont need to play with the RecoverableItems subtree yourself, the preview/export experience will let you access the messages.
I should have added the MS articles aren't the most helpful in facilitating view access to these secure hidden locations that keep original versions of messages under retention policies. That is ultimately what we need to achieve.
"These secure locations and the retained content are not visible to most people. In most cases, people do not even need to know that their content is subject to retention settings."
"These secure locations and the retained content are not visible to most people. In most cases, people do not even need to know that their content is subject to retention settings."