Hello,

I have a general functionality question.   for the Place content matching the search query in selected mailboxes on hold check box I noticed that it drives the Yes / No hold status in the EAC.   If this checkbox is NOT selected and the Hold status lists as "NO" does that mean the email box technically is not on litigation hold status?

If that is the case, why would you create an in place hold WITHOUT actually placing it on hold?

Thanks in advance....

Litigation Hold puts all items on hold versus in-place which is more granular and only places the query items on hold. 

You can remove a mailbox from litigation hold and still have a in-place hold on the mailbox.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637980%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Thanks Andy   - this is making more sense now.   So it sounds like I can also do the reverse...put a mailbox on litigation hold when needed...and if I need to suddenly pull out granular information from that mailbox, create the in place hold to search and pull out messages... is that correct?

Thanks Andy   - this is making more sense now.   So it sounds like I can also do the reverse...put a mailbox on litigation hold when needed...and if I need to suddenly pull out granular information from that mailbox, create the in place hold to search and pull out messages... is that correct?

Yes, you can do both. In your scenario however, since the mailbox is already on litigation hold, you would simply need to do an ediscovery search of the mailbox and dump the results to the Discovery Mailbox.