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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating retention tags and policies


Retention policies are the recommended method for implementing messaging records management in Exchange 2010. Retention policies use retention tags to apply settings to mailbox folders and individual items. Retention tags are configured with a retention action that can be taken when an item reaches its retention age limit. In this recipe, you'll learn how to create retention tags and policies in the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it.

There are three types of retention tags that can be used to apply retention settings to a mailbox through a retention policy. The following steps outline the process of creating custom retention tags based on these types and assigning them to a new retention policy:

  1. The following command will create a retention policy tag for the Inbox folder specifying that items older than 90 days be deleted permanently:

    New-RetentionPolicyTag -Name AllUsers-Inbox `
    -Type Inbox `
    -Comment "Items older than 90 days are deleted" `
    -RetentionEnabled...