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How to clear the Discovery Holds folder
To find whether this discovery holds folder is completely full, use the below-mentioned command. Step 1: Connect-ExchangeOnline and then, Step 2: Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity us...
Great post, thank you. This helped me when both RecoveryItems and DiscoveryHolds were full. We had a lot of retention policies, so using this command excluded them from all polices:
Get-RetentionCompliancePolicy | foreach {Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -identity $_.name -AddExchangeLocationException <user>}Also, it can take a lot more than a few minutes if the mailbox has a lot of items (in my case, 100GB). It's going very slow for me, maybe 1GB every hour or two.
Thank you so much for this info. This worked for the issue we were having, my question would be how do I undo the changes to the affected mailbox? I'm talking about the settings like Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -Identity "Compliance Retention Policy Name" -AddExchangeLocationException user and the -retaindeleteditemsfor settings.
The Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy command has a property called -RemoveExchangeLocationException, it will basically be:
Set-RetentionCompliancePolicy -Identity "Compliance Retention Policy Name" -RemoveExchangeLocationException user- We can remove the same excluded ones by using commands else by going to the compliance portal to the "retention policy".
