Just recently migrated to Exchange 2007, and I was wondering if I created a new default and/or custom folder does that folder immediately show up for everyone? Also is it possible to create "Managed Content Settings" or more then one policy for the Inbox, etc? It does appear you can. What happens if I want to create different retention settings for different mailboxes? For example for normal user mailboxes I don't want any policies. However I would like to setup some retention time frames to purge out emails for some of our shared mailboxes. Is this possible? I don't want to make a change that will effect everyone; just certain mailboxes. And for those "other" mailboxes some I may want to retain mail from the Inbox for 30 days while others only 7 days. Is this possible?

Hi- Yes the folders will show up automatically. You need Outlook 2007 or better to get the full experience though. You can create multiple policies for the same built-in folder. If you right click in that UI you can create additional instances of a Default folder. You can then link different Managed Content Settings objects to the folders. To apply different policies to different mailboxes, you need to link the Managed Folders to a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy and then apply that policy to the accounts. What you want to do is possible.Active Directory, 4th Edition - www.briandesmond.com/ad4/

Awesome, thank you. Just what I was looking for.