Inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online are a vital part of the Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management capabilities. They offer a low/no-cost and versatile way of retaining mailbox data according ...
Updated May 18, 2023
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Jesse_Tedoff thanks for making the updates, but quick question - in my experience, just like Satyajit321 said, I'm always able to do Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -IncludeSoftDeletedRecipients against any of the many thousands of Inactive Mailboxes that clients I work with have. I've never had that not work. Considering this, is the note "critical prerequisite to collect the folder ID values before a mailbox is made inactive" actually even true at all, even sometimes?
The text "-Include" is present in this page 3 times currently (now 4, because of this sentence), but not once in the original post itself. I feel like the post missed this point and, even though the proposed proactive solution is admittedly slick, it's not really necessary and is a lot to take on especially for large org's like Satyajit321 said.
On the other hand, if Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -IncludeSoftDeletedRecipients in fact sometimes cannot work, then I suppose this whole comment can just be ignored.
Thanks in advance.