Contributing

How do I run ManagedFolderAssistant?

How do I run ManagedFolderAssistant?

The Managed Folder Assistant uses the retention policy settings of users’ mailboxes to process retention of items. This mailbox processing occurs automatically. You can use the Start-ManagedFolderAssistant cmdlet to immediately start processing the specified mailbox.

How do you run a retention policy immediately?

If you want your newly created Retention Policy to start immediately on a mailbox, you will first have to connect to use Remote PowerShell to your Office 365 account. Once you applied the PowerShell command above, you wait for 5 minutes or so before logging into your OWA to check the progress of your Retention Policy.

What is ManagedFolderAssistant?

The Managed Folder Assistant (MFA) is an Exchange Mailbox Assistant that applies and processes the message retention settings that are configured in retention policies. You can configure the Managed Folder Assistant to process all mailboxes on a Mailbox server within a certain time period that’s known as a work cycle.

How do I manually run retention policy in Office 365?

From the Microsoft 365 compliance center, select Policies > Retention. Select New retention policy to start the Create retention policy configuration, and name your new retention policy.

How do I force a retention policy in Office 365?

Use the Exchange admin center to apply a retention policy to a single mailbox. Go to Recipients > Mailboxes. In User Mailbox, click Mailbox features. In the Retention policy list, select the policy you want to apply to the mailbox, and then click Save.

How do I create a retention policy in Office 365?

How often do retention policies run o365?

every 7 days
Retention Policies are processed by a scheduled task that runs every 7 days. This means emails could be kept up to 7 days past the expiration period. If a mailbox is less than 10 MB, it is not processed by the scheduled task and thus the Retention Policy does not apply unless you manually run the task (KB2627729).

How do I create a managed folder in Outlook?

Create and Manage Folders in Outlook

  1. In the “Folder” tab, click “New Folder.” The “Create New Folder” window will appear.
  2. Enter a name for your folder in the “Name” field.
  3. In the bottom section of the window, select where you want the folder to be located.
  4. Click [OK].

How do I enable auto archive in Office 365 admin?

Go to https://compliance.microsoft.com and sign in.

  1. In the left pane of the Microsoft 365 compliance center, click Information governance, and then click the Archive tab.
  2. In the list of mailboxes, select the user that you want to enable the archive mailbox for.
  3. In the details pane for the selected user, click Enable.

How do I know it worked in start-managedfolderassistant?

When we run the Start-ManagedFolderAssistant cmdlet successfully, then there will be an event 9018 in the application log. If we want to process more than one mailbox, we will need to use the Get-Mailbox cmdlet and pipe a filtered list of mailboxes to Start-ManagedFolderAssistant. Just as you mentioned above:

What does the managed folder assistant cmdlet do?

The Managed Folder Assistant uses the retention policy settings of users’ mailboxes to process retention of items. This mailbox processing occurs automatically. You can use the Start-ManagedFolderAssistant cmdlet to immediately start processing the specified mailbox.

How to start the managed folder assistant in exchange?

Use the Exchange Management Shell to start the Managed Folder Assistant on a specific mailbox. To trigger the MFA to immediately process a mailbox, use this syntax: Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity This example triggers the Managed Folder Assistant to immediately process Morris Cornejo’s mailbox.

How to configure MFA in Active Directory forest?

To specify a value, use the syntax d.hh:mm:ss, where d = days, hh = hours, mm = minutes, and ss = seconds. To configure the same work cycle for the MFA on all Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 Mailbox servers in the Active Directory forest, don’t use the Server parameter.