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Using Office 365 retention policies with Office 365 Groups
Hi All,
To be explicit, does user license cover the retention policies (litigation hold) as Andrew mentions above? The Team or Group itself does not require a license for this function? My understanding is that it is a licensed feature.
Thanks for your time,
S.
Litigation hold is a specific feature for an Exchange mailbox.
Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $True -Identity Amailbox
See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn743673(v=exchg.160).aspx. You can't put a group mailbox on litigation hold.
The effect of a litigation hold is to hold the complete contents of a mailbox. You can accomplish the same effect for group mailboxes by creating an Office 365 retention policy through the SCC to retain all content for a long period and assign the policy to whatever group mailboxes you want to be in scope.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Overview-of-retention-policies-5e377752-700d-4870-9b6d-12bfc12d2423 says that you need at least an Exchange Online Plan 2 license to use a retention policy. But group mailboxes don't need a license and therefore this point is moot.
