We're running Exchange 2007 and I have some "Managed Default Folders" settings which delete all email older than specified days depending on the folder, i.e. Inbox 45 days, Deleted Items 30 days and Junk Email 15 days. This all works fine on all mailboxes which are members of our parent domain. We have a Child Domain with less than 10 users and none of the managed folder settings are being applied to any of those mailboxes. Any idea why? What doI need to do to fix this?Thanks in advance,Michael

On Wed, 9-Dec-09 00:46:57 GMT, Michael E. McAteer wrote:e,Michael Is the policy applied to those mailboxes?---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP

Apparently not. If I look under Recipient Configuration>Mailbox and add in the "Managed Folder Mailbox Policy" Field all of the mailboxes for the child domain are blank in that field. All our parent domain mailboxes say "Managed_Folder" in that filed. I don't remember how I applied the policy to begin with. I thought it was applied to all mailboxes.Thanks,Michael

OK I figured this out. In case anyone else runs into this issue, it's cause is related to being an older exchange admin. First of all I found this was not isolated to child domain accounts, it was in fact all newly created accounts since I applied the policy initially. In previous versions of Exchange these policies applied to all mailboxes and included any newly created mailboxes. Exchange 2007 does not apply the policy by default, you need to manually apply it to all new accounts upon creation or go back and apply it manually to each account. I have since identified all account which did not have the policy applied to it and manually configured each account. I have also instructed my Admin staff on how to apply the policy at account creation to avoid this from being a problem in the future.Thanks for your help Rich, got me pointed in the right direction.Thanks,Michael

On Wed, 9-Dec-09 20:13:50 GMT, Michael E. McAteer wrote:ually apply it to all new accounts upon creation or go back and apply it manually to each account. I have since identified all account which did not have the policy applied to it and manually configured each account. I have also instructed my Admin staff on how to apply the policy at account creation to avoid this from being a problem in the future.Thanks for your help Rich, got me pointed in the right direction.Thanks,Michael Time for some Powershell scripting. :-)If you want to, you can create a script that runs periodically andapplies the correct policy to the mailboxes based on whatever criteriayou need. If the correct policy is already applied to the mailbox justskip to the next mailbox. IOW, recreate what the RUS was doing inE2K3.---Rich MatheisenMCSE+I, Exchange MVP--- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP