Tag: In-Place Hold

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Update to Get-UserHoldPolicies

This certainly seems to be a day for updates! Based on some additional feedback from my peers, I’ve updated the Get-UserHoldPolicies script to exclude legacy Exchange MRM policies by default.  MRM policies, while they have RetentionPolicyTags, are technically either moving or deleting content, not preserving it.… [ Continue reading ]

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Update to the Get-UserHoldPolicies Tool

A new year, a new update for Get-UserHoldPolicies!  Woo!

I stumbled across some additional information today regarding deciphering hold policies for mailboxes while troubleshooting another issue and decided to update my Get-UserHoldPolicies tool to reflect it.

The core pieces that I added:

  • Identifying Skype policies (as prefaced by sky in the InPlaceHolds property of a mailbox)
  • Identifying excluded mailbox policies (as prefaced by -mbx in the InPlaceHolds property of a mailbox)
  • Disposition action for items at the end of a retention period:
    • Delete only
    • Do nothing after retention period
    • Delete after retention period

You can see a few of the new options here. … [ Continue reading ]