Compliance in Office 365

With Exchange Online, you can do the following to help your organization meet its compliance requirements:

• Prevent the deletion of email messages in order to comply with data retention requirements or legal requirements
  
• Search for items relating to specific legal cases or requests from regulatory authorities
  
• Control the flow of messages and implement actionable rules based on message content or on message senders and recipients
  
• Encrypt content and enforce email usage policies
  

For more information, see Security and Compliance in Exchange Online.

With SharePoint Online, you can do the following to help your organization meet its compliance requirements:

• Create and apply information management policies
  
• Create retention and expiration policies and rules for content
  
• Search and create a hold to protect specific documents or items from expiration policies
  

For more information, see Records management and compliance in SharePoint Online.