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    Hello,

    All of our users have a folder in their mailbox that we want to remove all items past a certain date.  We only want the "purge" to occur on this single folder, not all of the non-default folders.

    Is this possible and if so, how?

    Thanks.

    Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:40 PM

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    Version of Exchange?

    Simon.

    Simon Butler, Exchange MVP
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    Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:46 PM
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    Hi Simon,

    Yes, I suppose that would be important - sorry about that.

    We are running Exchange 2010 SP2.

    Thanks,

    Rob

    Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:56 PM
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    If you have Enterprise CALs then you can do this easily with a Custom Managed Folder.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee364744.aspx

    If you don't have Enterprise CALs then you would have to investigate other options.

    Simon.

    Simon Butler, Exchange MVP
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    • Marked as answer by Robrandon Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:06 PM
    Thursday, May 10, 2012 10:28 PM
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    Hi Simon,

    We tried that in our test environment and it didn't work.  The managed folder feature creates a new folder underneath a "Managed Folders" folder.

    From the technet article:
    "Managed custom folders   Managed custom folders are managed folder objects you can use to create custom folders in a user's mailbox. The folders are created under a top-level folder called Managed Folders."

    We need to be able to control the retention of the user created folder that is at the root of their mailbox (same level as Inbox, Deleted Items, Sent, etc.)

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks,
    Rob

    Friday, May 11, 2012 12:57 AM