Stephanie Kahlam

After you have set up and configured your Compliance Management Policy with in-place eDiscovery you will then be able to execute an eDiscovery search from EAC in Office 365. Upon completion of the search you can export the results to a .pst file or open the search results from the Discovery Mailbox directly for viewing. …

How to configure a company policy for: Hold all user email for 7 years Enable In Place Archiving for all users Move all user mail to personal archive after 2 years Apply Retention Policy to delete mail after 7 years Make all Exchange items searchable/discoverable View details and quotas for Recoverable items folder

Create a new Retention Tag New-RetentionPolicyTag -Name 1DAY -Type ‘Personal’ -AgeLimitForRetention 1 -RetentionAction ‘DeleteAndAllowRecovery’ -RetentionEnabled $true Get a List of all Retention Tags Get-RetentionPolicyTag Create a new Retention Policy New-RetentionPolicy “Company Policy” -RetentionPolicyTagLinks “Company Policy-Deleted Items”,”Company Policy-Sent Items” Apply a new Retention Policy to ALL users $UserMailboxes = Get-mailbox -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq ‘UserMailbox’)} $UserMailboxes | …

Advanced Email Features in Exchange Online Advanced Email which includes: Information Rights Management, archiving legal hold capabilities unlimited storage Applicable to: Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education A3 Office 365 Government G3 Office 365 Enterprise E4 Office 365 Education A4 Office 365 Government G4 Exchange Online Plan 2 More Here Required Permissions for eDiscovery …

New Features Just Keep Popping Up I make a point of checking our Office 365 portals each day.  Its seems there is no methodology for feature roll outs that I can find information on, but it does appear that the newer your tenancy the quicker the features appear. In May 2014 Blogs.office.com posted “Simplifying the …

Microsoft  came through with their promise of a massive increase to OneDrive for business from 25GB to 1TB So if you are like me you want to confirm this increase, you want to see it first hand.  And here’s how you can do it.

If you have enabled and configured DirSync you can view basic information regarding “Synchronization Status” from the Office 365 Administration Portal. You can however, view a more detailed overview by running a simple PowerShell command.

Microsoft’s “myBulletins”  make it easy to filter and manage security bulletins specific to your environment. “Using this service, customers can filter security bulletins to show only those that are relevant to the Microsoft products in their environment.  It can also be used to help prioritize security bulletins with the ability to sort by release date, …

New O365 Admin portal features are rolling out NOW.  Keep checking your portal, upgrades could occur at any time and when they do this is what you will see.  Stay informed and connected by frequently checking the NEW Office 365 Public Roadmap site. Office 365 will proactively check DNS records to find and fix DNS …

In a recent Blog from Blogs.office.com, “Choosing a Sign-in Model for Office 365” we are informed that DirSync with password sync can now be used as a “backup sign-on” in the event our existing on-premises single sign-on infrastucture becomes unavailable. This is great news considering that if we lost the functionality of SSO or suffered from …