Email retention policy issues

Posted by Klutzy_Industry_8619@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 1 comments

Hey guys,

I'm trying to assign retention policies to user mailboxes.

Ex: Archive Mailbox after 1 year, delete archive after 3 years.

Archive mailbox after 1 year - Tag is set up as a Default Policy Tag assigned to all mailbox items.

Delete Archive after 3 years - Tag is set up as a Retention Policy Tag assigned to Archive mailbox.

The retention policies and tags are created, the tags are assigned to policies and the policy is assigned to a user mailbox.

Mailbox archiving is turned on.

Ran:

Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity "useremail"

The command runs fine, it's been over 10 days no changes to the mailbox. The inbox still has emails older than 3 years and Archive is empty.

Get-Mailbox -Identity "useremail" | Select-Object DisplayName,RetentionPolicy

Shows that the Retention policies are applied to the user mailbox.

Any tips to force enforce this?