Enabling Retention Policies - Office 365

Steps

Action

First create Retention Tags

Create retention tags under the online tenant (for mailboxes that have been migrated to O365), under ‘Organisation configuration’ and ‘Mailbox’, the select the ‘Retention Policy Tags’ tab and create a new retention tag based on the setting you planned for in the previous step e.g.

This tag will apply to all folders and is therefore an default policy tag

Create a retention policy and assign the retention tags to the policy

In the online EMC click ‘Retention Policies’ tab and create a new retention policy and assign the retention tags to the policy

Process the retention policy immediately if required

Run the following command

Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity "Mailbox added the previous step" (using remote PowerShell)

Login to the users mailbox to see if the retention polices have applied and are available (this will depend on the retention policy types you have created)

Login to a user’s mailbox that has the retention policies assigned and notice the available policies in the ‘Home’ ribbon in Outlook 2010. The ‘Use Folder Policy’ is the default policy tag we created called ‘Move To Archive’ and is applied to all folders. The 14 days/2weeks policy is the ‘Custom – Move To Archive’ retention tag we created earlier, this is applies to ‘Personal folders’ and is therefore a personal tag, which users can apply to custom folders and individual items e.g. emails