For a Exchange 2007 server - I would like to create a 5 year retention policy for all items. Is there a powershell command I can run to tell me the following How many items are in the database (all mailboxes) that are older than 5 year for delivered date and total size for same items. Essentially I would like to see the savings for implementing the 5 year retention policy. Thanks John

Hi John, I find this related thread, hope can give you some help: Exchange 2007 Script - Find email create date by year http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ar/ITCG/thread/025eecc2-6f5a-4148-9dff-c91c7b4be6ee If you want to check all the items that older than 5 years, you can use Export-mailbox to search the items, and export them to one folder in Administrator’s mailbox. You can know more detail form this document: Exchange Server 2007 Export Mailbox task http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/11/28/3397373.aspx Thanks, Evan Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

Not sure if that will help - I am suprised that I can not use a get-mailboxstats command and filter by date with that... if that command can pull message counts and sizes I would think you can first filter by messages within mailbox. Should be something easy - being able to report on how much space saving you would have by implementing a 5 year retention policy would be a no brainer. JD