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She can repeat this for each of the separated users, one at a time. The mailbox will be retained due to litigation hold.

#Remove office license license

The Administrator can assign the Office 365 E3 license to one of the five users, enable litigation hold for that user, then delete the user account (releasing the F1 and E3 licenses). Fabrikam also has a single Office 365 E3 license. These licenses do not include Exchange Online (Plan 2), so litigation hold is not an option for these users, however Fabrikam wants to retain their emails indefinitely when they leave the company.

Fabrikam has 500 Microsoft 365 F1 licenses assigned to users.

This is a licensing violation for several reasons - Active mailboxes under litigation hold must have a valid license that includes Exchange Online (Plan 2) and it violates the licensing reassignment policy. He then repeats these steps for each user. These licenses do not include Exchange Online (Plan 2), so litigation hold is not an option for these users, however Northwind wants to retain their emails indefinitely. The administrator assigns a single Microsoft 365 E3 license to a user, enables litigation hold, and then removes the E3 license.

Northwind Traders has 500 Office 365 F1 licenses assigned to users.

The Office 365 E3 licenses can be assigned to other workers but cannot be reassigned again for 90 days except for the reasons listed above. Contoso buys 100 new Microsoft 365 E5 licenses, assigns them to the same workers, and removes their Office 365 E3 licenses.

Contoso has assigned 100 Office 365 E3 licenses to its workers.

This is allowed by the licensing terms because it was a temporary reallocation. When Susan returns to work, the temporary replacement's account is deleted, which again removes the license, and the license is reassigned back to Susan. The administrator deletes Susan's account from Azure AD, which removes her license, and assigns it to her temporary replacement. Susan will not access her email while out on leave.

Susan Mitchell's mailbox is on litigation hold when she goes on leave for 30 days.This license cannot be reassigned again to a another user for 90 days except for the reasons listed above. The released license is reassigned to John's replacement, Gary. In this case, it is the responsibility of the organization to remove all data from Office 365 before they leave. The organization is no longer a Microsoft Online customer.Discovery can still be made, but no results will be returned. All the data ages out based on the organization's litigation hold retention policy.All litigation holds are released from John's mailbox (there may be more than one).The inactive mailbox is still subject to eDiscovery searches until one of the following: The administrator makes John's mailbox inactive by deleting John's user account, which releases John's Microsoft 365 E5 license.

John Baker's mailbox is on litigation hold when he leaves the company.

This includes the following online licenses: The user you wish to place on hold must a subscription that includes Exchange Online (Plan 2). For brevity I will refer to both types of holds as "lit hold" in this article, since the licensing requirements are the same for both. This article will describe the technical licensing requirements for holds in O365, both lit hold and in-place hold. Litigation hold in O365 originally only existed for Exchange Online mailbox data, but has been extended to include other workflows, like SharePoint Online, Teams, Skype for Business Online, etc.įor more information about litigation or legal hold in Office 365 please read In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold in Exchange Server. Legal hold can also be used as an alternative to using third-party journaling solutions since all emails are retained and cannot be deleted by the user or admin, except by retention policies. eDiscovery is used to produce immutable copies of data for legal counsel or the courts. When there's a possibility or the likelihood of litigation, admins can place mailboxes on litigation hold or in-place hold. When you place content locations on hold, content is held until you remove the hold from the content location or until you delete the hold.