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Retention and archive policies in exchange
I'm working with a customer who has a couple of Macs, and I've discovered that the Mac Outlook client does not behave the same as the windows client.
That said, I want to deploy two archiving/r...
The policies act server-side, so the client used should not be an issue. You cannot target users based on the type of client they use though, you will have to manually specify to which users the first policy will apply and to which the second one.
To build on what Vasil says, you could mark the mailboxes for the Mac users with a custom attribute and use that to determine what retention policy to apply. For example, here's how to set an attribute:
Set-Mailbox -Id MyMacUser -CustomAttribute15 Mac
And now, to apply it:
Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeMailbox Usermailbox -Filter {CustomAttribute15 -eq "Mac"} | Set-Mailbox -RetentionPolicy MacRetentionPolicySimple...
