I have been googling for weeks trying to find a way to setup MBM for one of my important users who doesn't want to manage his mailbox manually. We have agreed that it would be ok for his messages to stay in the Inbox and Sent for 30 days then be moved to an Archive folder. The problem is that I have already created a policy for the Inbox, Sent and Deleted that deletes messages aged over 90 days and it applies to all other users. I can't wrap my head around the process to create another policy that will apply to only his mailbox and move 30-day Inbox messages to an Archive/Inbox folder and 30-day Sent messages to Archive/Sent folder. I created a Custom folder called Archive but can't see how to create the subfolders. Also I can't see how to create another policy that applies to Inbox as it says there is only one policy allowed per folder. Am I hoping for too much here? Thanks Robert Crooks

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:10 +0000, Robert Crooks wrote: > > >I have been googling for weeks trying to find a way to setup MBM for one of my important users who doesn't want to manage his mailbox manually. We have agreed that it would be ok for his messages to stay in the Inbox and Sent for 30 days then be moved to an Archive folder. The problem is that I have already created a policy for the Inbox, Sent and Deleted that deletes messages aged over 90 days and it applies to all other users. I can't wrap my head around the process to create another policy that will apply to only his mailbox and move 30-day Inbox messages to an Archive/Inbox folder and 30-day Sent messages to Archive/Sent folder. I created a Custom folder called Archive but can't see how to create the subfolders. Also I can't see how to create another policy that applies to Inbox as it says there is only one policy allowed per folder. > >Am I hoping for too much here? Does this help? http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/10/managed-folders-how-to-apply-different.html You can create many different managed default folders, each of which have different managed content settings. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Not having very good luck with the procdedure on the link. It talks about creating addition managed folders and then content settings for them. The thing is if I am trying to create a policy that takes items from Inbox and Sent and moving them to an Archive folder. I followed the steps, and applied the new policy to my account, but none of the new managed folders appear in my inbox. I'm really missing something because I don't see how creating a Managed Default folder called Inbox30Days that contains Inbox items and then creating a Managed Content setting that says to move the contents of this folder to a Managed Custom folder will do anything. The new Managed Dafault Folder doesn't have any items in it because it isn't the actual Inbox. I did create a Managed Content policy for the actual Inbox, Sent and Deleted that would simply delete any content over 30 days and it work like a charm on my mailbox. When I assign this new policy that I created from the example given in the link, it does nothing. Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:05:54 +0000, Robert Crooks wrote: > > >Not having very good luck with the procdedure on the link. > >It talks about creating addition managed folders and then content settings for them. The thing is if I am trying to create a policy that takes items from Inbox and Sent and moving them to an Archive folder. Okay. You need two Managed Default Folders for that, and one Managed Custom Folder (which, FYI, requires an "Enterprise CAL" for the client). >I followed the steps, and applied the new policy to my account, but none of the new managed folders appear in my inbox. "Inbox" and "Sent Items" are default folders. You aren't creating any new default folders, you're just introducing a way to manage the contents of existing folders (and default ones, at that). The "new" folder is a Managed Custom Folder. On the property page for your mailbox server, is the Managed Folder Assistant scheduled to run? Has it run? >I'm really missing something because I don't see how creating a Managed Default folder called Inbox30Days that contains Inbox items and then creating a Managed Content setting that says to move the contents of this folder to a Managed Custom folder will do anything. The new Managed Dafault Folder doesn't have any items in it because it isn't the actual Inbox. Yes, it is. Look at the "Folder Type" column in the "Managed Default Folders" tab. >I did create a Managed Content policy for the actual Inbox, Sent and Deleted that would simply delete any content over 30 days and it work like a charm on my mailbox. When I assign this new policy that I created from the example given in the link, it does nothing. The example in the link doesn't do anything with Managed Custom Folders. Can you say what it is you actually did? 1. Created a new Managed Default Folder named "xxx" that handles "Inbox" items. 2. Created a new Managed Content settings names "yyy" for the "xxx" Managed Default Folder. 3. Created a new Managed Folder Mailbox policy named "zzz" and added "xxx" to that policy. 4. Applied the "zzz" policy to mailbox "mmm" 5. Ran "Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Mailbox mmm" etc. etc. etc. >Any further suggestions would be appreciated. I'm not sure what you expect the "Archive" folder to do. It's still part of the mailbox. Were you expecting to somehow make the mailbox smaller by creating a Managed Custom Folder named "Archive"? Or just to get "stuff" out of some other folders by deleting the items? --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP