Michael, That's exactly what it is looking like. Thank you for the response.
Here's another question, just for clarification as to our exact scenario: We are migrating from Groupwise to Exchange. In the process, I create a new mailbox for User X. I use this tool we have, which logs into the Groupwise mailbox for User X. I select all the mail we want to move over. The tool I use then logs into the Exchange mailbox for User X, and basically does a file copy of mail from GW to Exchange. It works pretty well. What I have seen is that when User X first logs into Outlook and connects to his mailbox, he gets new meeting/appointment reminders for everything that was in the calendar; past, present and future. So, that tells me that obviously Exchange is seeing the mail as new items. My question: If I apply the 90-Day retention policy to Inbox/Sent Items/Deleted Items, before I migrate the mail over, how will the retention policy see the migrated mail? 1) Will it see as newly arrived, so that 90 days from the migration, it starts deleting? 2) Will it see the dates involved with the messages, so messages older than 90 days at the time of migration are deleted? 3) Or will we see some other response? I can, and will test this out, but I just want to hear your views on this. Thanks, Joe Heaton ITB - Enterprise Server Support From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 12:13 PM To: Heaton, Joseph@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Retention policy not deleting I think I covered this in one of my "Exchange 2010 gotcha" blog posts. Clock starts the first time the MFA runs against an item and tags it. From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]<mailto:[mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 3:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Retention policy not deleting Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 I have created 3 retention policy tags. One for Inbox, one for Sent Items, one for deleted items. I've created a single retention policy that uses these 3 tags. I've assigned this policy to a few mailboxes as test subjects. The policy seems to be working to a point, all messages in those mailboxes in those folders are marked that a retention policy is being applied, and when the message expires. What is not working is the actual deletion. I have the policy set to Permanently Delete messages after 90 days. There are many messages in these boxes that are older than 90 days, but they are not being deleted. I have done a little research and see that there may have been a bug at some point, but that was back in 2010. Has this issue been fixed? Or does the policy not delete anything except after 90 days (in my case) from actually applying the policy? I need to know how it's really supposed to work, and whether or not what I'm seeing is what I should see, or if something is "broken". Thanks, Joe --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
