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We recently loaded up a brand new Commserv. Upon configuring On-Prem Exchange Mailbox backups there was a cleanup job policy created that was configured and enabled. On first run after the first mailbox run (Close to 4700 mailboxes) the job deleted about 1.8 million e-mails from exchange based on the settings of the job which appears to have picked1 day past our retention date to clean up everything. Our retention date is 90 days so the job used 91 days.  Has anybody else even seen where the cleanup job automatically enables when an exchange plan is created and uses defaults?

I have never seen this behavior and tested out the Mailbox agent many times.

The cleanup rules are disabled by default and must be toggled on before any sort of cleanup operation can be run. The cleanups are also a separate job operation that can be run as well which adds a secondary level of safety here. 


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