Hi We are running Exchange 2003 SP2, but I am confused about the Deleted Item retension policies. Under Recipient Policies > Mailbox Manager settings > Properties There is a setting to move 'Deleted Items' older than 7 days to the Deleted Items folder. This is applied to all Mailbox Servers. However, we also have a Mailbox Store policy applied to some mailbox stores that says "keep deleted items for 10 days" Which one takes precedence? Also, I see that you can set the Deleted Item retention on the ADUC account of a user...does this override the previous? And is the user able to manually set the setting via the Outlook Inbox?

On Wed, 16-Dec-09 10:16:47 GMT, Sheen1990 wrote:>We are running Exchange 2003 SP2, but I am confused about the Deleted Item retension policies. >>Under Recipient Policies > Mailbox Manager settings > Properties >>There is a setting to move 'Deleted Items' older than 7 days to the Deleted Items folder. This is applied to all Mailbox Servers. I'm not sure how that would work. Is "delet items in the "DeletedItems" folder older than 7 days" what you meant?s "keep deleted items for 10 days" >>Which one takes precedence? Also, I see that you can set the Deleted Item retention on the ADUC account of a user...does this override the previous? And is the user able to manually set the setting via the Outlook Inbox? The Mailbox Manager moves the items to a folder within the mailbox.They really aren't "deleted" from the databases' point of view,they're just in a folder named "Deleted Items".When you empty your "Deleted Items" folder, that's when the items are"deleted" from the mailbox and when the Deleted Item Retention periodbegins.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP