

- SKYPE FOR BUSINESS CONVERSATION HISTORY OUTLOOK ARCHIVE
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In the Name and description page, define a name for the new in-place hold that we are creating, and for this article, we are going to use VIP Archive and click Next.

In order to have the Skype for Business data archived on Exchange Server 2013, the administrator must configure litigation at the mailbox level.Īs you may already know, there are a couple of ways to enable litigation hold on a mailbox using Exchange Server 2013: using litigation hold (old style) and in-place hold. In the new page, make sure to select at least one of the options Archive internal communications and/or Archive external communications (Figure 04)

For this article, the Global one will be enough, select the item from the list and click on Edit. The second step is to configure/create an Archiving Policy, which can be defined at Global, Site and User level. In the Archive Setting, define which type of data will be archived (in our Article we are going to use both IM and web conferencing sessions), and select the option Exchange Server integration, click on Commit (Figure 03). For the current scenario, we are going to enable only at the Global level, which will make all changes available to all users. The Archiving Configuration can be done at Site and Pool level. Logged on the Skype for Business Control Panel, click on Monitoring and Archiving, and then click on Archiving Configuration tab. The first step is to define what is going to be archived, and then enable the integration. In order to achieve the real Archive feature in Skype for business we need to configure it at the server level and enable legal hold on the Exchange Server side. Set-CSClientPolicy Global –EnableIMAutoArchiving The result after the policy is applied will be similar to Figure 02. The following cmdlet can be used and that will apply to all users that do not have a specific Client Policy (if they have, just configure the same attribute on the additional policies). The administrator also has the ability to use a Client Policy and configure that option to enable on all clients. That is a nice feature to have and the users can go there any time to recover information, no harm in configuring this one. If the user enables the option Save IM conversations in my email Conversation History folder (Figure 01), then all IM information will be stored in the Conversation History. Some administrators may confuse the property to save the IM conversations where it is available to the end-uses with the Skype for Business Archive, and that is not the same thing at all!

Skype for Business client and archive feature… As a result that stored information can be retrieved through eDiscovery capabilities. The archive feature enables the Instant Messaging data and Web Conferencing transcripts to be stored in Exchange Server 2013. Having the integration in place between Skype for Business and Exchange Server 2013, allows the administrator to configure the archive in Skype for Business.
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