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Does Legal Hold monitor specific things to ensure that everything in a mailbox is tracked when it is enabled?

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Care to expand on this question a bit further, or is this a homework question? – Hyppy May 17 '11 at 18:17
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I don't know what elements you're referring to. A legal hold just ensures that users can't delete items from a mailbox. – Holocryptic May 17 '11 at 18:34
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It's not so much which two elements it's tracking as overall tracking. A good write-up of what Legal Hold does can be found here. The Hold process leverages the Recoverable Items folder to maintain a log of activity in the mailbox. Certain user-actions trigger retention activities.

  • Deletes. When a user deletes a message (empties the trash) the messages are stored in the Recoverable Items folder directly.
  • Purges. When a user removes an item from Recoverable Items directly, a copy of the purged message is stored. For mailboxes not in legal-hold status this would normally fully delete the message.
  • Changes. When information in a message changes, such as subject lines, categories, flags, and other user-modifiable items, a copy of the pre-change message is archived. This provides a full change-log for eDiscovery later.

Legal-hold overrides the system defaults for retention in Recoverable Items.

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I've edited the question. I don't think it affects your answer any, but you might want to once over it... – Holocryptic May 17 '11 at 18:42
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