What is the Powershell command line to apply a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy to an entire datastore? Sorry for the newbie question. Thanks! Shawn

I assume Managed Folder Mailbox Policy is created, you can use below command to set it for entire store. Get-Mailbox | Where{$_.Database -eq "ServerName\StorageGroupName\DatabaseName"} | Set-Mailbox -ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy "Policy Name" Explanation: "Get-Mailbox" command gets the list of all mailboxes. Where{$_.Database -like "ServerName\StorageGroupName\DatabaseName"} filter list of all mailboxes which are on mailbox store "Database Name" and output goes to Set-Mailbox command. "Set-Mailbox" command set Managed folder policy for filtered mailboxes which are on "Database Name". I hope this helps you...

Amits answer is very solid, I only want to add a few points: Just set the policy on DB isnt enough to see the effects in users Outlook. To do this we need to schedule the managed folder assistant to run on a mailbox server For EMC: a. Server Configuration->Mailbox->locate related mailbox role and right-click it->choose Properties b. In the Messaging Records Management tab->set the running schedule For EMS (perform a manual run immediately): Start-ManagedFolderAssistant http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691428(EXCHG.80).aspx Here are some references about MRM: Managing Messaging Records Management http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123507(EXCHG.80).aspx Records Management in Exchange Server 2007 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/19/428952.aspx

I am having a brain fart. When I enter this command into poweshell, it promps for me for Identity. What am I doing wrong? I just want to apply the mailbox policy to the entire database. Thanks! Shawn

Hi Does this make it default for the datastore then, say I ran this command today then added new users next week, would I have to re-run the command or does it set it as default policy for the datastore? We are adding new users both individually and in bulk almost every week, it would be useful for us if the datastore had the policy set and every user added to that store afterwards would automatically pick up that policy. Cheers Phil

did anyone ever answer this? i have read it will have to be incorporated into a PS1 file and set to run by scheduled task every week to catch all new users.. very clumbsy.... ALSO, no one has mentioned that in EXCH2003 when you shceduled the mailbox cleanup policy it was kicked off an ran until completed. This process you need to GUESS how long it needs to run to process all the mailboxes you intend to process... so it will need to have a schedule of several hours for thousands of mailboxes. again VERY VERY clumbsy... none

In case anyone searches and finds this post, here's an easy command to apply Policy to all users Get-Mailbox | Set-Mailbox –ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy 'Default Managed Custom Folders'