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How do I know if an Exchange 2010 retention policy was ran?

Hello everyone,

We have recently upgraded to exchange 2010 from 2003. We then went on to creating a few mailbox retention policies and now we have reason to believe that users have lost emails from sub-folders the had withing their inbox.

We were not aware at the moment that the inbox policy would also be apply to sub-folder in the inbox. Is there a way to run a report or view a log file to see if it was run, how many times, or who was affected?

Thanks in advance!

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Praveen Balan

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ctc1900

You could try using the MFCMapi.exe against a profile to see how it affected an individual mailbox

- Session
- Logon and Display Store Table
- Select Profile you'd like to use
- Open the mailbox (double click)
- Expand Root Container and Top of Information Store
- Browse to the folder,notes, etc that you would like to verify and double click
- Highlight one e-mail and look for the following property name on the bottom pan:
- PR_RETENTION_DATE (How long it would stay there before being deleted)

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Thank you, we have decided to just create a managed folder policy and which we will use in a powershell script and set it as a scheduled task this way it will run and automatically add new users to the rentention and managed folder policy.