Exchange 2010 Litigation Hold - Now What Do I Do?

It's easy to put a mailbox on Exchange Litigation Hold... but how do you get the information back out?

To view what's in the mailbox, you need to do a Discovery Search.

First you need to ensure you have the Discovery Management role assigned to your mailbox.

Add-RoleGroupMember -Identity "Discovery Management" -Member jsmith

Now you have this, you can perform a Discovery Search through the ECP webpage https://mailserver/ecp

Click on Mail Control - Discovery

Then create a new Mailbox Search, you can choose what type of items, which mailboxes and what dates. You can do an Estimate Search which is handy for showing what the results will be, and then choose a "Discovery Search Mailbox" to output the results to.

Once the search completes, you can open the "Discovery Search Mailbox" using Outlook or OWA (Click on your name and type Discovery Search Mailbox).

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