Remove older messages on Exchange 2010

[gwdrsmith]

I need to write a script that will delete all messages older than 6 months for all users. Is this posible on Exchange 2010? Can anyone help?

 

[58sniper]

No script needed. It's a built in feature.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd297955.aspx

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

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[ntinlin]

Does retention policy still suffer the problem of only being able to tag on an ongoing basis?

i.e. You have decades worth of mail in mailbox, put a 6 month retention tag on, but day 1 only starts the first time the retention policy kicks off and tags all the existing mail.
Therefore it will be another 6 months before stuff gets removed?

I did use MRM in EX2007 but only for simple stuff like remove messages >14 days in deleted items.
Much as I love the newer versions I sometimes hanker after old EX2003 features like Mailbox Manager.

Neill

 

[gwdrsmith]

Thanks 58sniper (MIS). This helped me considerably. This is the information I've been looking for. However it does not appear that you can apply the retention policies to a message store. Only to mailboxes. Now I need to find a method to automatically add new users to the policy when they are created.

 

[58sniper]

See my blog post on cmdlet extension agents, which let you automate just about everything.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchan...-2010-_2D00_-life-just-got-simpler_2100_.aspx

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.exchangeblogs.com/

 

[gwdrsmith]

Thanks. I'll check it out.