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Users can disable search
Hi Jaroslav Karlik TonyRedmond et al,
We've reviewed further with those on our end already engaged on the issue - a continuing effort to adjust legacy settings to the cloud-first approach, evolving from on-premises roots. We've a planned fix soon to roll out that makes moot what you're discovering. Once fully in place, people will not be able to disable eDiscovery for their own OneDrive - even if they had disabled Search. It will be a sole action for admins. Appreciate the eyeballs and call to attention.
Thanks, Mark, on behalf of the OneDrive teamCc StephenRice
Well yes, the user being a SCA can do as they please with any setting on their personal ODFB, assuming they know what they're doing. I haven't actually tested how search settings affect eDiscovery, but will verify this now and report back.
So I disabled search for one user, but I can still run eDiscovery against his ODFB just fine. I'll give it some time to re-index, and will try again.
What about DLP ..which definitely rellies on content search??
We did have problems with some litigation cases and even MS support pointed us to fact user had disabled search. We requested a DCR from MS so maybe they already fixed it for eDiscovery ....
I'm not saying I don't trust you, it actually sounds logical to me. Just want to verify it before I start pinging folks at Microsoft about it. So far I don't have any issues running eDiscovery searches against a user with search disabled, but I might simply be seeing results from the old index.
Great, thank you for validating!
So few hours later, I still seem to be able to search the entire content of the user's ODFB. I'll give it another try later just in case, but have you actually validated that you are unable to do eDiscovery once Search is disabled?
