In Exchange 2003, I was able to create a mailbox management policy that would take effect if a certain custom attribute was set a certain way. I need to do the same thing in 2007, but don't see a way. Basically, for certain mailboxes, I want everything older than 60 days deleted. These mailboxes will be spread out across two servers and can reside in any of the databases. I dont mind if I have to use a different method to mark the mailboxes (other than the custom attribute setting), but I don't want to have to manually run or schedule a powershell command periodically to update the list of mailboxes this policy will apply to. When the mailbox is created, I want to be able to mark it somehow and have the policy automatically apply to it. Any Ideas?

In a lot of ways, this is much easier to do in Exchange Server 2007 than it was in Exchange 2003. In E2K7, you use the Managed Default Folders feature to define which folders need to managed (eg, purged). Then, create a Managed Folder Mailbox policy that indicates which folders are included in a particular policy. Finally, assign that policy to the user or users that you want to inflict it on. :-)I looked around a bit because I figured there had to have been someone that had written an article on replacing the E2K3 mailbox manager with E2K7 managed folders. Take a look at these articles:http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2007/05/applying-managed-folder-policy-to-more.htmlhttp://smtp25.blogspot.com/2009/02/mrm-message-record-management.htmlJim McBee - Blog - http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com

that did it! thanks for your help

Great! Thanks for updating. Glad to be of assistance.Jim McBee - Blog - http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com