Mailbox Management Policy help

Sp00n · 7 Mar 2010 at 13:34

I have a mailbox management policy which is set to delete emails that are older than 365 days and the size limit is removed. This is supposed to run against a security group I created with approx 10 users in it called "deleteemail12months" but when I do "start mailbox management process" and I instantly get a report saying its done:

The Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Manager has completed processing mailboxes
Started at: 2010-03-07 13:20:17
Completed at: 2010-03-07 13:20:18
Mailboxes processed: 0
Messages moved: 0
Size of moved messages: 0.00 KB
Deleted messages: 0
Size of deleted messages: 0.00 KB

I cant figure out why it doesn't do anything, can I not run this against a security group? Does anyone have much experience with this?

this is the filter rule:

(&(&(|(&(objectCategory=person)(objectSid=*)(!samAccountType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.804:=3))(&(objectCategory=person)(!objectSid=*))(&(objectCategory=group)(groupType:1.2.840.113556.1.4.804:=14)))(anr=deleteemail12months*)))

Spooter · 7 Mar 2010 at 13:51

Maybe try it against just one of the users and see if that works. At least then you then know if its not liking the use of a group.

Sp00n · 7 Mar 2010 at 19:41

Ran it against a single user and its still coming back instantly after doing nothing.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is has been caused by the mailarchiver export process which wrote a custom archived attribute to every email.

I've been reading up how mailbox manager calculates the older than date but I don't really get it.

Sp00n · 8 Mar 2010 at 14:39

Right, now for some reason that policy I created on the single user is now working and the report is coming back with some data in it so the issue appears to be running the policy against a group.

How the hell do you group people when running this process as I cannot run it against the whole store because of remote users/sync issues.

/edit the only way I can think of would be to create a policy for each individual user, then when everyone has been done, I can just create a policy on the whole store, is there a limit on how many policies you can have? I will need roughly 50.