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Roger Roger
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Feb 13, 2019

Retention policy

Hi Experts I have a shared mailbox on Exchange online, and archiving is enabled for it and i can see archive mailbox size is currently 20GB. When i look into Retention policy it shows Default MRM ...
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Victor_Ungureanu
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Feb 13, 2019
Retention policies can also be created in the Security and Compliance Center and they cannot be seen in EAC, but they apply to mailboxes and can move items to the archive.
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    Roger Roger
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    Feb 14, 2019

    is it Default 2 years move to archive even though it doesnot have a retention tag but i am not sure

     

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/security-and-compliance/messaging-records-management/default-retention-policy

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      Victor_Ungureanu
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      Feb 14, 2019
      The tag called "Default 2 years move to archive" applies to all the items that don't have any other tag applied, so yes, this tag can be the reason for items being moved to the archive.

      If the user doesn't manually move anything to the archive, then the newest item in the archive might be 2 years old if it was moved because of the above-mentioned tag.

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