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Need to Purge DiscoveryHolds Data from Archive Mailbox in Exchange Online
Hello Team, I am working on an Exchange Online mailbox where the archive mailbox has accumulated a large amount of data (over 335 GB) under the Recoverable Items → DiscoveryHolds folder. The mailbox...
Thanks andydavid1 and VasilMichev for your help.
The issue has now been resolved.
The root cause was that ComplianceTagHoldApplied was set to True. I set it to False using the following command:
Set-Mailbox "UserPrincipalName" -RemoveComplianceTagHoldApplied
After making this change, I was successfully able to purge the emails from the DiscoveryHolds folder.
Prob not the case for you, but verify that someone didn't enable Adaptive Protection in Purview. That places an org-wide hold on mailboxes - even ones that are flagged as risky.