How to restore In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold settings in an Exchange hybrid deployment

Article
03/17/2023
Applies to:

Exchange Online, Exchange Server 2016 Enterprise Edition, Exchange Server 2016 Standard Edition, Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise, Exchange Server 2013 Standard Edition, Lync Server 2013

Original KB number: 2934398

Introduction

This article describes how to restore In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold settings in a Microsoft Exchange Server hybrid deployment.

To restore In-Place Hold settings, follow these steps:

On the Exchange server, open the Exchange Admin Center by using on-premises admin credentials.
If your organization is enabled for a hybrid deployment with Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft 365, click the Enterprise tab in the navigation bar.
Click compliance management, and then click in-place eDiscovery & hold.
Select the In-Place Hold entry for which you want to restore In-Place Hold settings, and then double-click it, or click Edit ( ), to open the properties page.
On the properties page, click In-Place Hold. The In-Place Hold settings for the user are displayed.
Click to clear the Place content matching the search query in selected mailboxes on hold check box, and then click Save.
Reopen the same properties page, and then click In-Place Hold. Notice that the Place content matching the search query in selected mailboxes on hold check box is cleared.
Click to select the Place content matching the search query in selected mailboxes on hold check box. Additionally, if you were using a time-based In-Place Hold, select Specify number of days to hold items relative to their received date, enter the duration, and then click Save. Doing this restores any In-Place Hold settings that existed before the issue occurred.
Repeat steps 4 through 8 for any other In-Place Hold entries that you have.

To restore Litigation Hold settings, follow these steps:

Open Exchange Management Shell, and then connect to your on-premises Exchange Server deployment.
To restore a user's Litigation Hold duration setting, run the following command:
```
Set-Mailbox <user> -LitigationHoldDuration <valueInDays>
```
For example, to set NinaT's Litigation Hold duration to 90 days, run the following command:
```
Set-Mailbox NinaT -LitigationHoldDuration 90
```
Repeat step 2 for each user whose Litigation Hold duration setting you want to restore.

To restore the Litigation Hold duration setting, follow these steps:

Connect to Exchange Online by using remote PowerShell. For more information, go to Connect to Exchange Online Using Remote PowerShell.
To restore a user's Litigation Hold duration setting, run the following command:
```
Set-Mailbox <user> -LitigationHoldDuration <valueInDays>
```
For example, to set NinaT's Litigation Hold duration to 90 days, run the following command:
```
Set-Mailbox NinaT -LitigationHoldDuration 90
```
Repeat step 2 for each user whose Litigation Hold duration setting you want to restore. After the next time that directory synchronization runs, the Lync 2013 server will detect the restored Litigation Hold duration settings.