Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. Use the Retention policies settings in Outlook Web App to apply a policy to your messages and the folders in your mailbox. Be aware that Conversation History, a folder in Outlook, is a feature that has nothing to do with Skype archiving. I placed a Retention Policy based off my discussions with Upper Management to say:"Delete anything in the Deleted Folder OLDER then 90 Days". I added a "LocalAdmin" -- but didn't set the type to admin. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. Or to retain without an end date, select Retain items forever on this page. The_Exchange_Team If the membership of those groups later change, your existing retention policy isn't automatically updated, unlike adaptive policy scopes. I'm Laura and I work with leaders and their teams through blended training and coaching to create sustainable performance and wellbeing. +. Because of the challenges of reliably specifying URLs for individual users to include or exclude for static scopes, adaptive scopes with the User scope type are better suited for this purpose. You can tell its working by checking under Mailbox Features > Archiving: Enabled and it should confirm the size of the archive mailbox underneath. The next timer job runs through and handles the flagged items and does the required action (deleting the item, moving it, executing a workflow, etc). How long will items be kept in an In-Place Archive with Microsoft's Default MDM Policy? You can choose a replacement label that's configured to apply another replacement label. Many settings for retention are common to both retention policies and retention label policies. -Filter also doesnt appear to be an available switch for get-mailbox in the new PS Module. I like to move all items older then one year move to the archive. Doing some reading, it looks like this takes several months to actually kick in, based off Microsoft's default settings. First, edit the archive policy, change the name and the retention period using the portal: Or using PowerShell: Set-RetentionPolicyTag -Identity "Default 2 year move to archive" -Name "6 months move to archive" -AgeLimitForRetention 183. When you've decided whether to use an adaptive or static scope, use the following information to help you configure it: If you have policies that use static scopes and you want to convert them to adaptive scopes, leave your existing policies in place while you create new policies that use adaptive scopes with the same retention settings. If this check fails, you see a message that validation failed for the URL you entered, and the retention policy can't be created until the validation check passes. You can't relabel a regulatory record but the replacement label can be configured to mark the content as a regulatory record. What are some of the best ones? If you want to force the policy to take effect immediately, you can use the Start-ManagedFolderAssistant cmdlet.