Automatic Purge Deleted Items folder

Question

_{Friday, September 11, 2015 5:05 PM}

Hi;

I am using Exchange 2013 Standard, and I created an agent mailbox for email checking before sending to 3rd parties company, I created a rule on the agent mailbox to move the email in "In Box" folder to the "Deleted Items" folder.  However; the email will sit on the "Deleted Items" system folder without purging, so I go to the Retention Policy and Retention Tag to create a tag for purge the deleted items and apply the policy to the mailbox.  After two days monitor, I still found the email still sitting on the "Deleted Items" folder.

I am wondering, if the retention tag and policy work for the standard edition?  I have set the retention period for 1 day only.

KW - CNE,MCSE,VCP5

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_{Friday, September 11, 2015 11:52 PM ✅Answered}

Hi,

When items are deleted, they are retained for 14 days. You'd want to change this to 0 days for this mailbox.

Command is below.

Set-Mailbox -Identity - "April Stewart" -RetainDeletedItemsFor 0

Let me know if this answers your question.Thanks.

Mark Gossa

MCSE 2003, MCITP Enterprise Administrator 2008 R2, MCSA 2012 R2, MCTS Exchange 2010

Blog: http://markgossa.blogspot.com

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_{Saturday, September 12, 2015 8:05 PM}

thanks, I will try.  after apply this shell script, is there anyway to push or force it active immediately?

KW - CNE,MCSE,VCP5

_{Saturday, September 12, 2015 9:07 PM}

Once you've run the command above, it'll be active and delete the deleted items each night. If you want to force it to run immediately then try running

Get-Mailbox -Identity "April Stewart" | Start-ManagedFolderAssistant

More information here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998864(v=exchg.150).aspx.

Let me know if this helps you out. 

Thanks.

Mark Gossa

MCSE 2003, MCITP Enterprise Administrator 2008 R2, MCSA 2012 R2, MCTS Exchange 2010

Blog: http://markgossa.blogspot.com

Posts are provided “AS IS” without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.

_{Monday, September 14, 2015 2:27 AM}

Hi,

Document for reference: Configure Deleted Item retention and Recoverable Items quotas

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee364752%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

Best Regards.

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