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Legal hold after E3 license is removed
Scenario: 1. assigned E3 license to user and enabled legal hold 2. user resigned and profile was deleted - E3 license was removed while legal hold is on Question - can ediscovery still...
Hi Marvin Oco
Deleting a user with mailbox having holds or litigation hold will result to "Inactive Mailbox" in Exchange Online. Inactive mailboxes can be searched/included in eDiscovery cases.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/securitycompliance/ediscovery-cases
Note also that if the hold applied to mailbox is released, inactive mailbox will be deleted permanently. And of course, after permanent deletion mailbox becomes unsearchable.