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Copper Contributor

Dec 10, 2022

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How to clear the Discovery Holds folder

To find whether this discovery holds folder is completely full, use the below-mentioned command. Step 1: Connect-ExchangeOnline and then, Step 2: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity us...

koakd540
May 23, 2023
Great post, thank you. This helped me when both RecoveryItems and DiscoveryHolds were full. We had a lot of retention policies, so using this command excluded them from all polices:

Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy | foreach {Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -identity $_.name -AddExchangeLocationException <user>}

Also, it can take a lot more than a few minutes if the mailbox has a lot of items (in my case, 100GB). It's going very slow for me, maybe 1GB every hour or two.

EPWidjaya

Copper Contributor

Nov 01, 2023

venkatkirankona

Hi this is something I've been looking for.

can you help me on this? i tried what you did but it doesnt work for me.

Set-Mailbox -Identity xyz -RetainDeletedItemsFor 0
Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity xyz
Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity xyz
Get-Mailbox xyz | FL DelayHoldApplied,DelayReleaseHoldApplied

>>DelayHoldApplied : False
>>DelayReleaseHoldApplied : False

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity xyz | select name,foldersize
Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy | foreach {Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -identity $_.name -AddExchangeLocationException xyz}

Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity xyz
Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity xyz

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity xyz | select name,foldersize
Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity xyz
Start-Managedfolderassistant -Identity "email address removed for privacy reasons"

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity xyz | select name,foldersize

venkatkirankona

Copper Contributor

Feb 05, 2024

What is the error?

Before running these commands, you need to exclude the IDs on compliance retention policy.