AWM Retention Policy
Emerson Tiamzon
Posted at January 31, 2024 09:01 am. Last updated at June 11, 2025 08:06 am
AWM Manage Retention Policy
This policy will allow mailboxes archive emails to Database Archive. First Instruction is for Personal Emails
Personal Emails
- Login to
- Click on “Compliance Management”
- Click on Retention Tags.
- Add new tag.
- Select “Applied users to items and folders (Personal)”.
- Click move to Archive.
- Add days on “When the item reaches the following age (in days) ”.
- Save.
- Click on Retention Policies.
- Click “Add”.
- Add Name and Add Retention Tag.
- Click the Tag that been added .
- Click on Retention Tags.
- Click Recipients
- Click Mailboxes.
- Click User or Click Edit.
- Make Sure “In-Place Archive” Enable.
- Click mailboxes features.
- Click Retention Policy that has been created.
- Script to runs.
- Check “RetentionHoldEnabled” this must be false.
- Get-Mailbox "<email address>" | Select RetentionHoldEnabled
- Force run the “Retention Policy”
- Start-ManagedFolderAssistant “<Display Name>”
- Check if the “Retention Policy” is running correctly.
- Get-Mailbox "<emailaddress>" | get-mailboxstatistics -archive -erroraction silentlycontinue| select displayname,totalitemsize
- Check “RetentionHoldEnabled” this must be false.
Shared Emails
- Login to
- Click on “Compliance Management”
- Click on Retention Tags
- Add new tag
- Select “Applied automatically to entire mailbox (default)”.
- Click move to Archive.
- Add days on “When the item reaches the following age (in days) ”.
- Save.
- Click on Retention Policies
- Click “Add”.
- Add Name and Add Retention Tag.
- Click the Tag that been added .
- Click on Retention Tags
- Click Recipients
- Click Mailboxes.
- Click User or Click Edit.
- Make Sure “In-Place Archive” Enable.
- Click mailboxes features.
- Click Retention Policy that has been created.
- Script to runs.
- Check “RetentionHoldEnabled” this must be false.
- Get-Mailbox "<email address>" | Select RetentionHoldEnabled
- Force run the “Retention Policy”.
- Start-ManagedFolderAssistant “<Display Name>”
- Check if the “Retention Policy” is running correctly.
- Get-Mailbox "<emailaddress>" | get-mailboxstatistics -archive -erroraction silentlycontinue| select displayname,totalitemsize
- Check “RetentionHoldEnabled” this must be false.
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