Manage Litigation Hold

1.1 – Assign Litigation Hold to specific recipient (Exchange Online mailbox)

PowerShell command Syntax

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Set-Mailbox <Identity> -LitigationHoldEnabled $True

PowerShell command Example

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Set-Mailbox John -LitigationHoldEnabled $True

1.2 – Assign Litigation Hold to a specific recipient (Exchange Online mailbox) + define time range (7 years).

PowerShell command Syntax

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Set-Mailbox <Identity> -LitigationHoldEnabled $True -LitigationHoldDuration <time range >

PowerShell command Example

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Set-Mailbox John -LitigationHoldEnabled $True -LitigationHoldDuration 2555

1.3 – Assign Litigation Hold to all of the Exchange Online recipients (Bulk mode)

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter {RecipientTypeDetails -eq "UserMailbox"} | Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $True

1.4 – Assign litigation Hold to Exchange Online recipients (Bulk mode) based on a criterion | Department

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Recipient -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter '(Department -eq "<Department>")' | Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $True

PowerShell command Example

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Get-Recipient -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter '(Department -eq "Marketing")' | Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $True

1.5 – Assign litigation Hold to Exchange Online recipients that don’t have Litigation Hold

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.LitigationHoldEnabled -match "False"} | ForEach-Object { $Identity = $_.alias; Set-Mailbox -Identity $Identity -LitigationHoldEnabled $True }

2. Display information about Litigation Hold

2.1 – Display information about specific recipient which his mailbox has Litigation Hold

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox <Identity> | FL LitigationHold*

PowerShell command Example

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Get-Mailbox John | FL LitigationHold*

2.2 – Display information about all of the mailboxes which have Litigation Hold

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | FL LitigationHold*

2.3 – Display information about User mailboxes which has Litigation Hold using the filter operator

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter {RecipientTypeDetails -eq "UserMailbox"} | FL Name,LitigationHold*

2.4 – Display information about User mailboxes which has Litigation Hold using the Where operator

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.LitigationHoldEnabled -match "True"} | FL Name,LitigationHold*

2.5 – Display information about User mailboxes which doesn’t have Litigation Hold

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox | Where {$_.LitigationHoldEnabled -match "False"} | FL Name,LitigationHold*

2.6 – Display information about mailboxes which have Litigation Hold | information about the recoverable items folder.

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter {LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $true} | Get-MailboxFolderStatistics –FolderScope RecoverableItems | Format-Table Identity,FolderAndSubfolderSize -Auto

3. Remove Litigation Hold

3.1 – Remove Litigation Hold to specific recipient (Exchange Online mailbox)

PowerShell command Syntax

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Set-Mailbox <Identity> -LitigationHoldEnabled $False

PowerShell command Example

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Set-Mailbox John -LitigationHoldEnabled $False

3.2 -Remove Litigation Hold to all of the Exchange Online recipients (Bulk mode)

PowerShell command Syntax

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Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Filter {RecipientTypeDetails -eq "UserMailbox"} | Set-Mailbox -LitigationHoldEnabled $False