Performing Compliance searches
Another new feature introduced in Exchange 2016 is Compliance Search, which allows administrators to search all mailboxes in the organization. While In-Place eDiscovery is limited to search only up to 10,000 mailboxes, compliance search does not have such limitation, which is extremely helpful for large organizations that need to perform organization-wide searches.
Compliance search uses the New-ComplianceSearch
cmdlet we already looked at in the Deleting messages from mailboxes using Compliance Search recipe from Chapter 4, Managing Mailboxes. Using this cmdlet, we can search all mailboxes in the organization and then use in-place eDiscovery to perform other eDiscovery-related tasks, such as placing mailboxes on hold or exporting search results.
In this recipe, we will look at how we can leverage the New-ComplianceSearch
cmdlet to determine which mailboxes contain items related to an investigation.
How to do it...
To search all mailboxes in the organization for...