Like any other mailbox, a discovery mailbox also has an active directory user account. A discovery mailbox fulfills this requirement with the default storage capacity of 50 GB.But it is to be noted that this storage capacity cannot be increased.
The storage capacity of the target mailbox should be large enough to store the entire data returned by the search process. This abolishes the chances of storing the results in a less secured or other user’s mailbox accidentally by an Exchange administrator. In-Place eDiscovery in Exchange Hybrid environment is targeted to search for mailboxes, both on-premises and cloud-based.Ī discovery mailbox provides below mentioned functionality:ĭiscovery mailbox serves as a secure and easy target location to store In-Place e Discovery search results.Discover mailboxes eliminates the futile search for mailboxes to store the search results as a discovery mailbox is solely made available to store the results when Exchange Admin Center is used to copy the search results. The In-Place eDiscovery feature in Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Online serves as a resource for performing legal discoveries related to lawsuits, organization policies, etc.It allows the user with correct permissions to access the messaging record of all the mailboxes of Exchange Server and Exchange Online.When used with SharePoint, In-place eDiscovery enables to search and save the entire data related to a particular case.The data that can be stored is SharePoint Online websites, file shares indexed by SharePoint 2013, documents, shared mailboxes in Exchange and content of archived Lync 2013. This cross-mailbox search can be efficiently done by Discovery mailbox that helps the users to search for relevant content in the Exchange mailboxes.To be precise, discovery mailboxes are deployed as target mailboxes by In-Place eDiscovery feature in Exchange server to store the discovery results. Exchange administrators carry out cross-mailbox search in Exchange Server and Exchange Online in various scenarios, legal discovery being the scenario of utmost importance.