hello, many of my users have 50k+ items in their deleted items folder. is there a way i can schedule the deletion of these items at say 2am using the exchange management shell? thanks in advance! -chaz

Use managed folders instead. Can you use shell, yes but it'll basically be exporting the deleted items to pst and using the -deletecontent. Managing Deleted Items under Default Managed folders in Exchange 2007 http://smtpport25.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/managing-deleted-items-under-default-managed-folders-in-exchange-2007/James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

thanks man , very helpful . can you apply more than one managed folders policy to a mailbox ? -chaz

It's not one manged folder policy per mailbox it's one managed folder policy per folder. You can however create different managed policies per folder for different sets of users. Managed Folders: How to apply different Managed Content Settings to Default Folders http://exchangepedia.com/2007/10/managed-folders-how-to-apply-different-managed-content-settings-to-default-folders.htmlJames Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

james thanks that did the trick . -chaz