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Keep All Email for Two Years
Hi All, I am in a hybrid environment with Exchange 2016. All mailboxes have been migrated to EOL. I would like to create a retention policy that would prevent a user from permanently deleting emails...
- Just to clarify, are you talking about Exchange Online retention policy, or Office 365 retention policy? The former do not actually prevent users from deleting messages. Use a retention policy from the Compliance center instead (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide), in which case the messages will be preserved as mentioned by Adin above.
Just to clarify, are you talking about Exchange Online retention policy, or Office 365 retention policy? The former do not actually prevent users from deleting messages. Use a retention policy from the Compliance center instead (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide), in which case the messages will be preserved as mentioned by Adin above.
- Thanks for the replies! Both were very helpful.
