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Retention policy and legal hold
Yes, you can use the Retention policies found in the SCC. The naming is confusing, as we've had different type of "retention" in Exchange for a while now. You can learn more about them here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Overview-of-retention-policies-5e377752-700d-4870-9b6d-12bfc12d2423?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
As explained in the article, behind the scenes Retention policies place the mailbox on hold, so that content is preserved immutably, in-place. This will also apply to "leavers", which will turn into "Inactive" mailboxes once the user account is deleted.
Hi Vasil,
Thanks for your reply. Actually I also read the article you mentioned. From this article, if I haven't misunderstood, retention policy can do the same thing in-place hold or legal hold did. (As under the header "Use a retention policy instead of these features"). But still, I heard many other people say that "retention policy is different from legal hold". So I really wish to clarify if the "retention policy" in SCC can already archive the same function as legal hold, and is there still any need for us to set legal hold if we already set retention policy to preserve all emails for 7 years.
Retention policies/tags in Exchange are indeed different from hold, but as detailed in the article, the same-named policies in the SCC are different and do "retain" content. You can still simply use good old litigation holds to ensure content is preserved, if you are having troubles with the new retention policies.