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Brass Contributor

Jan 14, 2019

Archive Rentention policy removing calendar entries

Hi I have just implemented a retention policy on our corporate mailboxes for the first time and it was set to archive emails over 6 months old to an 'In-Place' archive. There are no delete settin...

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Alistair Trigg

Brass Contributor

Jan 15, 2019

Thanks that's my mistake. If the calendar entries are archived is it possible to get restore those items.

Alistair

VasilMichev

MVP

Jan 15, 2019

It's possible, but not in an automatic way unfortunately, as we don't have any "revert retention policy" type of functionality. Closest you can get is to use some EWS-based script that copies/moves items between the archive and the main mailbox, here's a sample one: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/office/PowerShell-Merge-mailbox-e769c529

You can modify it to include just calendar items and just specific time range. Other than that, it's manually moving the items...

Alistair Trigg
Brass Contributor
Jan 15, 2019
Hi

Thanks. It might be that the best way because most users probably don't care. I can't see where they are now held in order to move them back?

Alistair
- VasilMichev
  MVP
  Jan 15, 2019
  They should be in the same folder under the Online Archive.
  - Alistair Trigg
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 15, 2019
    Hi
    
    My 'In-Place' archive folder doesn't have a calendar folder. I am using O365 thought OWA
    
    Alistair