Taking a Look at Holds in the new Purview eDiscovery

Not much has changed but there are some hints at more that may be coming

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As I spent the last few months investigating what was coming with the new Purview eDiscovery tool, I have to admit that I didn’t spend a lot of time reviewing holds.

That’s because everything I’ve heard from Microsoft publicly has been about the hold policy being the same as the new query builder. This is nice, actually. After all, I have identified the new abilities to find group ownership and membership, managers, direct reports, and frequent collaborators as being particularly applicable when collecting potentially relevant data, and the same is true when applying a hold.

That’s nice. Beyond that, however, not much has changed in terms of applying holds in the new eDiscovery. You set your sources and the query, apply the hold, and it will eventually update and show you whether it was applied successfully or not.

Therefore, if you haven’t yet applied a hold in the new interface, it shouldn't be a significant learning curve.