powershell exchange online, module security and compliance, you will have to connect-exchangeonline and Connect-IPPSSession. you will not see the commands until you connect. it will day the module is not installed if your not connected, very annoying and confuses a lot of people.

Im in this exact same position. How does one retrieve the emails a user has deleted that the retention policy has kept.

if the license is removed If I recall correctly the amils will get purged after like 30-90 days from the backed, its recommended to remove the license and chang the mailbox to a shared mailbox, and the mailbox owner should be licensed, their piggybacking on that one

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they can still delete it but its kept in the backend of Microsoft, the email can be accessed when doing e-discovery. I don't like the way its marketed, basically there is no way to keep an email in a user mailbox, if they want to delete it they can. in purview ediscovery you can recreate a pst file based off your query grabbing that backend data. I found discovery to be lacking. because of all this I have to use barracuda for retention. but I'm currently writing a script that pulls all new emails in the last 24hrs and sends them to a database I created. sharepoint online rententions have a specific folder they goto in sharepoint and wont let you delete it from there but it still disappears to the user, this is a little better, but if you add record lock then it can actually prevent the user from deleting from the begining. one drive and teams also work similar to exchange were its really kept in the backend and only accessible with e-discovery.

@@HEADSPACEnTIMING thank you for explaining

Not sure what you mean in relation to Email Retention?

@@bearded365guy that is, I want to open many accounts, but when opening an account, it asks for a phone, And it says the usage limit has been exceeded, what could be the reason and what can I do

Sorry, I’m not sure I can help.

Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -RemoveOneDriveLocationException, there a bit more to it but that should I think that's the command and parameter your looking for, but also u can easily do this in the purview using the GUI, literally has an exclude option.

Just convert it to a shared mailbox before you remove the license.

its something named closely to "security and compliance license " but some other ones include it to, but not the standard.

I never thought about this since my retention is so high, but you could create a retention tag, I don't thing you can auto apply it because your compliance policy is active and that's more important, instead the user would have to right click email or folder depending on a rule >assign policies>never delete, did you figure it out?

This is also a big issue in my environment. I am currently the Sr. Sysadmin for my company. After taking over for the former I.T. Director, what i found was a trainwreck. it looks like the default policy was used for a number of years and mailboxes were filling up. The solution that was put in place was a retention policy with all personal tags that moved inbox/sent/deleted items to their online archive. Then Personal policies were setup for Archive cleanup, that look like they aren't working as i have a number of users with 50gb/50gb in both mailbox and archive. I'm forever having to do mailbox cleanups. How can i manage archived mail to delete after X amount of time with this new retention structure? it looks like it's impossible.

use retention tags apply the tags to a policy "not compliance policy" then set the policy as default for the user. you can only do this using PowerShell exchange security and compliance. New-RetentionPolicyTag Set-RetentionPolicyTag

You keep everything for 7 years. Your business might need to for compliance

If you have people working for you, and they delete emails by mistake, you are making sure you'll keep all the messages in the tenant.

@@JorgeMorales-ue6ny You're missing the question. "Do nothing" says keep in perpetuity, no?

@@Joseph1NJ I have the same question. I think it means IF it's deleted, and it's older than 7 years, it really gets deleted.

The Answer, I retain all emails for 7 years then do nothing, at this time its up to the user if they want to delete. if deleted before it would be held in the backend. I need to retain the emails for 7 years for compliance reasons. After that I don't care what they do with it.