Monday, June 22, 2015

New Office 365 Compliance Search Feature

Office 365 is adding a new solution called Compliance Search to the Office 365 Compliance Center. What this capability will allow you to do is complete an entire search for data across Office 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business) without having to use the eDiscovery Center of SharePoint Online or the In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Online.

Why is this being done? Organizations sometime require the ability to search across all data in Office 365. The new Compliance Search capability will provide organizations a quick solution to start searching for data. If case management is required, then the eDiscovery Center of SharePoint Online or the In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Online should be utilized.

It is important to note that:

  • There are no limits on the number of mailboxes and sites that you can search.
  • There are also no limits on the number of searches that can run at the same time.
  • There are different limits for eDiscovery Center of SharePoint Online or the In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Online.
  • The new Compliance Center allows for searching across a broad set of data and is not associated to eDiscovery Center of SharePoint Online or the In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Online.
  • Legal Hold and Case Management cannot be initiated from the search results of the Compliance Search. If Legal needs to be applied, you will need to re-query for the data in the eDiscovery Center of SharePoint Online or the In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Online and then place the items on legal hold. In the public announcement, it states that over the next several months Legal Hold and Case Management will be added into the Compliance Search user experience.

Announcement - https://blogs.office.com/2015/06/17/introducing-compliance-search-in-office-365/

TechNet – detailed information on how to use this new capability - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.o365.cc.ComplianceSearch.aspx

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