Office 365 Information Protection content update for January 2017

Advanced Thread Protection in Office 365

• Advanced threat protection for safe attachments and safe links (updated; safe attachments policy now has an option for dynamic delivery, where users can receive and reply to email even while the attachment is being scanned)

Archive mailboxes in Office 365

• Enable unlimited archiving in Office 365 (new)
• Overview of unlimited archiving in Office 365 (new)
• Set-OrganizationConfig (updated; added description for AutoExpandingArchive parameter used to enable unlimited archiving for the entire organization)
• Enable-Mailbox (updated; updated; added description for AutoExpandingArchive parameter used to enable unlimited archiving for a specific mailbox)

Content Search in the Security & Compliance Center

• Export Content Search results from the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center (updated; added info about exporting results to a single PST file where all messages are in a single folder; also updated export limit for a single export to 2 TB)
• Keyword queries and search conditions for Content Search (updated; added Folderid to email properties and Path to site properties)
• Use Content Search in Office 365 for targeted collections (new; contains a script that returns Folderid property for mailbox folders and Path property for site folders, both which can be used in query to search specific folders)

eDiscovery cases in the Security & Compliance Center

• Use a script to add users to a hold in an eDiscovery case in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center (new; contains a script that automatically adds a list of users to a hold)

Import service in Office 365

• The following topics updated with corrected info about the TargetRootFolder parameter; this parameter specifies the mailbox folder a PST file gets imported to)
  • Use network upload to import PST files to Office 365
  • Use network upload to import RMS-encrypted PST files to Office 365
  • Use drive shipping to import PST files to Office 365
• Use the PST Collection tool to find, copy, and delete PST files in your organization (new; PST Collection tool is in Preview)

Preservation policies in the Security & Compliance Center

• Create a preservation policy (updated; users receive an error if they try to delete content [list, doclib, folder, subsite, site collection] that’s being preserved)
• Overview of eDiscovery and in-place holds in SharePoint Server 2013 (updated; same as previous)

(Thanks to Mark Johnson from the Centent Development team)

Until later,
Henrik Walther

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