I have a very large company on Exchange 2007 and need to set up some deleted item retention for groups of people. I want to permanantly delete messages older than a certain number of days. However, some mailboxes need a policy for 1 day (voicemail) other mailboxes need a policy for 2 years, others need a policy for 30 days, dependent on the purpose of the mailbox... In Exchange 2003 this was a piece of cake. In Exchange 2007 it's not possible to have more than one policy on the the default Deleted Items folder for our entire organization? Are you kidding me?

Forget it. I write a script to take care of it. # Load the Exchange 2007 snap-in if they are not already loaded Add-PSSnapIn -Name Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue # Get "dash VM" accounts from AD. Export (delete) items older than 10 days. Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited | where {$_.Alias -like "*VMAIL"} | Export-Mailbox -EndDate ((Get-Date).AddDays(-10).ToString('MM/dd/yyyy')) -IncludeFolders "\Deleted Items" -DeleteContent -Confirm:$false

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:44:06 +0000, AaronJAnderson wrote:>>>I have a very large company on Exchange 2007 and need to set up some deleted item retention for groups of people. I want to permanantly delete messages older than a certain number of days. However, some mailboxes need a policy for 1 day (voicemail) other mailboxes need a policy for 2 years, others need a policy for 30 days, dependent on the purpose of the mailbox...>>In Exchange 2003 this was a piece of cake. >>In Exchange 2007 it's not possible to have more than one policy on the the default Deleted Items folder for our entire organization? Are you kidding me?You can have many different Content Settings for any of the DefaultFolders. Only one of them can be named, for example, "Deleted Items".But you can create one called "Deleted Items - 1 Day", another named"Deleted Items - 30 Days", etc.Once you have that set up, pull the items you want into a policy andapply that policy to the mailbox.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

OK! I think I stumbled upon something that makes more sense. We're both right in a way. Have a look @ http://www.infotechguyz.com/exchange2007/MultipleManagedFolderPolicies.html

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:45:18 +0000, AaronJAnderson wrote:>>>OK! I think I stumbled upon something that makes more sense. >> >>We're both right in a way. >> >>Have a look @ http://www.infotechguyz.com/exchange2007/MultipleManagedFolderPolicies.htmlThat's what I get for posting in the evening. I forget the need tocreate the new managed default folder and just said to create the newmanaged contents setting.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP