Removing litigation and inplace holds

[Kurt Buff]

All,

We're using O365, not on-prem.

I've got two active holds on a couple of accounts, and several are subject to both of them, as shown here:

Get-Mailbox | where { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $true -or $_.InPlaceHolds -notlike "" } | select name,LitigationHoldEnabled,InPlaceHolds | ft -auto

Name            LitigationHoldEnabled InPlaceHolds
----            --------------------- ------------
User1                            True {UniHbeddc107-8844-43fc-8c4c-2f008b4e49f5}
User2                            True {UniHbeddc107-8844-43fc-8c4c-2f008b4e49f5}
User3                            True {UniHbeddc107-8844-43fc-8c4c-2f008b4e49f5}
User4                           False {UniHbeddc107-8844-43fc-8c4c-2f008b4e49f5}
User5                            True {}
User6                            True {}

The litigation hold needs to remain until March 2023. The InPlaceHold is from 2018 and needs to be removed - and I'm aware that the InPlaceHold has been deprecated for a couple of years.

I've looked over several articles, including:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/security-and-compliance/create-or-remove-in-place-holds

From my reading, if I use:

$casehold = Get-CaseHoldPolicy beddc107-8844-43fc-8c4c-2f008b4e49f5

Set-MailboxSearch $casehold -InPlaceHoldEnabled $false
Remove-MailboxSearch $casehold

That should remove the old InPlaceHold, but will it also remove the LitigationHold?

Thanks,

Kurt

[Michael B. Smith]

I’m pretty sure that *-MailboxSearch have been removed from O365, replaced by compliance cmdlets.

 

But to answer your general question – no, LitigationHold is a separate setting.

 

Thanks.

 

Regards,

Michael B. Smith

Managing Consultant

Smith Consulting, LLC

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[Michael B. Smith]

Yeah:

 

Note: As of October 2020, the *-MailboxSearch cmdlets are retired in Exchange Online PowerShell. Use the *-ComplianceSearch cmdlets in Security & Compliance PowerShell instead. 

 

Thanks.

 

Regards,

Michael B. Smith

Managing Consultant

Smith Consulting, LLC

 

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[Kurt Buff]

I'm trying to figure out the compliancesearch commands, but can't get them to reveal the LitigationHold and InPlaceHold configurations, let alone how to remove them.

I did try the get-mailboxsearch, set-mailboxsearch and remove-mailboxsearch cmdlets, and they don't work.

I also tried the get-compliancesearch cmdlet, but couldn't get it to show to show the InPlaceHolds or LitigationHolds revealed by:

Get-Mailbox | where { $_.LitigationHoldEnabled -eq $true -or $_.InPlaceHolds -notlike "" } | select name,LitigationHoldEnabled,InPlaceHolds | ft -auto

If I can't see them, how can I remove them?

The more I work with O365, the less I like it - and it's not even my primary job duty....

Kurt

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