Hello,
I've been looking at replacing existing Journaling with a combination of Exchange 2013 In-Place Hold and Archive Mailboxes, however I have a theoretical situation I've been having trouble mapping the behaviour for from the documentation available.
My theoretical configuration would be a Time Based In-Place Hold for all mailboxes for a 7 year period, with Archive Mailboxes for all users with a Retention Policy that moved all messages to the Archive Mailbox after 1 year (note; no Retention Policy to force deletion of messages after 7 years).
In this situation I believe that a message the user reads and takes no further action on would follow the below flow:
- day0: message delivered to inbox
- day365: message moved to Archive Mailbox
- day2555: message available for deletion
I am however unsure of the behaviour of messages the user has deleted within the first year which are in the Recoverable Items Folder at the point they should be moved to the Archive Mailbox, I would hope for the below flow:
- day0: message delivered to inbox
- day8: user deletes message (moved to Recoverable Items Folder on Primary Mailbox Database)
- day365: message moved to Archive Mailbox (Recoverable Items Folder on Archive Database)
- day2555: message purged from Recoverable Items Folder
However my concern would be based on the description of In-Place hold that all messages deleted would actually continue to be retained in the Recoverable Items Folder on the primary mailbox database and thus end up causing issues with around the Recoverable Items Quota for the database.
I would be grateful if someone could help me straighten out the logic in this theoretical situation and help me identify if this general idea is a workable replacement for Journaling.
Many Thanks