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Copper Contributor

Aug 13, 2020

Exchange 2016 - Retention Policy starts counting days from date of Policy creation.

Hello All, Recently I created Retention Policy, that has to delete emails in "Deleted items" whose age reaches 30 days. What I found before couple of days, that Retention policy starts counting the...

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HidMov

Steel Contributor

Aug 13, 2020

Hi pavlenych

To my understanding, you are correct.; this is what I have seen when setting up retention policy on the deleted items.

This page has information relating to how retention age is calculated.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/exchange/security-and-compliance/messaging-records-management/retention-age

Thanks,

Mark