Hi all,
I am looking for some answers that I was not able to find on the internet, maybe because the setup is little specific.
In a nutshell:
- Exchange 2013 CU4/SP1 test environment. Installed on Windows Server 2012 R2.
- One DB for the main mailboxes, one DB for the archive mailboxes.
- All users have Litigation Hold enabled on their mailboxes with retention of 10 years. Also there is a default policy tag to archive items after 90 days.
The question: When a user deletes something from the main mailbox the item is not really permanently deleted because of the Litigation Hold. So even though it will not count towards its mailbox quota, the message will remain taking space in the main DB (in the Recoverable Items folder). After the 90 days archive retention has passed, is Exchange supposed to "move" this message from the Recoverable Items of the main DB into the Recoverable Items of the archive DB? In other words, after the archive retention period has passed, should messages deleted from the main mailbox take up space in the main DB or the archive DB?
If Litigation Hold is not enabled, from what I read on the internet, the archiving policy should move the messages to the Recoverable Items of the archive mailbox/DB. However my tests show that the messages remain in the main DB. I am not sure if this is due to the Litigation Hold and if this is behavior by design in Exchange 2013.
If someone can please shed some light how should messages act in this scenario, I would appreciate it very much. Thanks a lot in advance.
Darko Dimitrovski.