July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 54m
English
When a user goes on vacation or will be out of the office for an extended period of time, you may need to suspend the processing of the retention policy applied to their mailbox. This recipe will show you how to use the Exchange Management Shell to place mailboxes on retention hold, as well as remove retention hold and discover which mailboxes are currently configured for retention hold.
Set-Mailbox cmdlet:Set-Mailbox -Identity dsmith -RetentionHoldEnabled $true
-RetentionHoldEnabled parameter to $false:Set-Mailbox -Identity dsmith -RetentionHoldEnabled $false