A legal department requires the ability to place an immutable hold on all Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint sites, and OneDrive accounts belonging to specific individuals involved in ongoing litigation. This hold must ensure that no content can be permanently deleted or modified, even if users attempt to delete items, until the litigation is resolved. Which type of hold provides this comprehensive, immutable protection across multiple workloads?
- AeDiscovery Standard case hold
- BeDiscovery Premium case hold
- CMicrosoft 365 retention policy with 'retain forever'
- DBasic SharePoint retention policy
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Correct answer: B. eDiscovery Premium case hold
An eDiscovery Premium case hold provides the most comprehensive and immutable protection required for litigation. It allows placing an indefinite hold on content across Exchange mailboxes, SharePoint sites, OneDrive accounts, and Teams, ensuring that even if users delete or modify items, copies are preserved for the duration of the legal hold. While eDiscovery Standard has holds, Premium offers more advanced capabilities and is typically associated with the highest level of comprehensive legal hold management.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. eDiscovery Standard cases include holds, but eDiscovery Premium provides more advanced and robust legal hold capabilities, including targeted collections and review, which aligns better with the 'immutable' and 'comprehensive' requirements for ongoing litigation.
- C. A Microsoft 365 retention policy with 'retain forever' keeps content but is not primarily designed for the dynamic, targeted, and immutable legal hold requirements of specific litigation cases across multiple workloads, nor does it inherently prevent all user actions as effectively as a legal hold.
- D. A basic SharePoint retention policy can retain items but doesn't offer the same level of immutable, cross-workload legal hold as eDiscovery, nor does it prevent users from initiating deletion (it moves to Preservation Hold Library).
eDiscovery Premium Case Hold
A legal hold capability within Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Premium that places an immutable, indefinite hold on data across various Microsoft 365 services for specific custodians, preserving content for litigation.
- Provides immutable preservation for litigation.
- Applies to Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, etc.
- Ensures no content is permanently deleted or modified.
- Part of the advanced capabilities in eDiscovery Premium.
Memory trick: Premium holds are the ultimate legal fortress for your data.