I have some mail enabled public folders that I wish to have only emails in the last 30 days. Does anyone know of a way to do this automatically for just certain public folders? Thanks, Marcus

Item retention is a feature that can be used when you want to keep deleted items for x days There is no feature that deletes messages from a public folder after x days You can however can configure mailbox policies and create a policy to delete messages from mailbox folders after 30 days Deli

Actually, you can use public folder age limits. I use this quite a bit as users never delete faxes from rightfax :-) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325548

knightly wrote: Actually, you can use public folder age limits. I use this quite a bit as users never delete faxes from rightfax :-) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325548 Thanks for the info.. Using Exchange Management Shell, I managed to set the age limit for the specific public folder. Items are still there from 3 months ago. I do not have another server to setup replication, is there a way to trigger the aging? I did try giving it a replication schedule but that didn't seem to work either. any suggestions? Code Block set-PublicFolder -Identity "\publicfolder" -AgeLimit 30 -ReplicationSchedule "Mon.3:45 PM-Mon.4:00 PM"

Deli Pro-Exchange wrote: Item retention is a feature that can be used when you want to keep deleted items for x days There is no feature that deletes messages from a public folder after x days You can however can configure mailbox policies and create a policy to delete messages from mailbox folders after 30 days Deli Thanks for the reply, I don't beleive the mailbox policy can apply to a mail enabled public folder.. At least I was not able to see that option.

I believe it'll happen on the next maintenance interval (2am usually). I"m still using my PF's on 2k3, b/c its easier so i'm not sure with 07.

knightly wrote: I believe it'll happen on the next maintenance interval (2am usually). I"m still using my PF's on 2k3, b/c its easier so i'm not sure with 07. Thanks! I'll post back the results Tuesday 10/23

Cool..mark it as usefull if it helped.

I must have overlooked that feature Deli

Marcus Leone wrote: knightly wrote: I believe it'll happen on the next maintenance interval (2am usually). I"m still using my PF's on 2k3, b/c its easier so i'm not sure with 07. Thanks! I'll post back the results Tuesday 10/23 That workedperfectly. Thanks for the help! Marcus

mind marking the post that contained the fix as helpful?

Here's the command line I used to ensure it was 60 days and not 60 minutes or seconds: Code Block Set-PublicFolder \MyPFCollection\MyPF -AgeLimit ([System.TimeSpan]::FromDays(60))

Exchange 6.5 I have the oposite to this problem i have files automaticly being cleared from a mail enabled folder one they are 90 days old. I have set Deletion settings "Keep deleted items for (day) 90" days so files that have been deleted canrestored for upto 90 days. Agelimit is not ticked and has no number in its field, yet the email keep dissapearing. It it interesting to note folders with in the mail enabled folder seem able to hold older mail. Any suggestions on hoy to rectify this and or recover the missing emial would be a appreciated.