Outlook: Calendar support in Online Archive

🚨 The Signal: Outlook Online Archive now supports calendar items, extending long-term retention and eDiscovery capabilities to meeting and appointment data. This improves compliance posture for historical calendar information.

The Impact

Security and compliance teams benefit from improved data retention and eDiscovery for calendar items, reducing data loss risk.

• Compliance teams: Improved eDiscovery for historical calendar data.
• Legal teams: Enhanced ability to retrieve calendar items for litigation.
• Security teams: Better data governance over all mailbox content.
• End-users: Consistent access to archived calendar information.

The Action

1. Review existing retention policies for mailboxes to ensure calendar items are included in relevant policies.
2. Communicate the expanded archive capabilities to legal and compliance teams.
3. Verify that Online Archive is enabled for all relevant user mailboxes via Exchange Admin Center > Recipients > Mailboxes > (User) > Mailbox features > Mailbox archive.

Domain: Exchange · Impact: low · Workload: Exchange Online