When I first installed the exchange 2007 server I setup a mailbox policy to delete mail over 30 days old from inbox. There were two users who were exclusions to that rule. I forget how I excluded them and now I need to add more users to that exclusion. Is there any way to look that up?I probably ran some long command in the shell....How would you guys apply a policy to all users except about 5 while still having it be applied to new users with explicitly adding them?

Use gets all mailboxes in your organization and pipe only and pipe the output to set-mailbox command to set mailbox policy.Please see below discussion:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvradmin/thread/1207bb32-6b15-49ac-9b4c-5dec5dc1380aAnil

Its all about the game of powershell, use filters on common parameters among the users you want to exclude and pipelines to setexclusions...Amit Tank | MVP Exchange Server | MCITP: EMA | MCSA: M | http://ExchangeShare.WordPress.com

Hi,Mailbox policy is applied to Individual User. You can use powershell script to create new mailbox and as part of the new-mailbox you can include -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy and provide the policy name to apply policy to the newly created mailbox. Below is the sample exampleNew-Mailbox -Name $DName -Database $Database -UserPrincipalName $PrincipalName -FirstName $FName -LastName $LName -Alias $Aliasname -Password $passwd -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true -SamAccountName $Aliasname -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy $MPolicy To make sure that you wanted to exclude few users always from the policy is may be you can try to create the dummy policy and add all the excluding users to aDLand use below command to apply a dummy policy which excludes from regular policyGet-DistributionGroupMember $group | Set-Mailbox -Identity -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy $dummypolicyRegards,Krishnahttp://smtpport25.wordpress.com/

Or set ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy to $null to remove the applied policy from the members of DG... Get-DistributionGroupMember $group | Set-Mailbox -Identity -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy $NullAmit Tank | MVP Exchange Server | MCITP: EMA | MCSA: M | http://ExchangeShare.WordPress.com

So if i understand this correctly my steps would be:1. create distribution group called "excludedUsers" or something. 2. Add the users to be excluded from the policy to the group.3. Run Get-Mailbox -RecipientType UserMailbox | Set-Mailbox -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy "Policy Name" -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicyAllowed4. Run Get-DistributionGroupMember excludedUsers | Set-Mailbox -Identity -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy $Nulland this would apply it to every user mailbox and then exclude it from those in that group, correct? and then as I add or remove users from the excluded group I don't need to re-run those powershell command, correct?

Hi, Q: This would apply it to every user mailbox and then exclude it from those in that group, correct?A: YesQ: Then as I add or remove users from the excluded group I don't need to re-run those powershell command, correct?A: No, you need to run the two commands again to add/delete policy to the mailbox. Thanks,Mike

Hi, Any further question regarding the issue?Thanks,Mike

Nope. that seemed to work well. Just so others who might try this know, the command above didn't need the -Identity so itsGet-DistributionGroupMember excludedUsers | Set-Mailbox -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy $Null