Discovery Hold

Question

Hi All

For one of my user user1@Company portal .com discovery hold is occupying almost 87GB, i have removed the hold now. how do i delete the discovery hold.
Litigation hold is disabled for the user.

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user1@Company portal .com -FolderScope RecoverableItems |Format-Table Name,FolderAndSubfolderSize,ItemsInFolderAndSubfolders -Auto

will the below syntaxes help me to delete the discovery hold. after deleting i also need to set retain deleted items for 14 days, what is the syntax for it.
Set-Mailbox "user1@Company portal .com" -UseDatabaseRetentionDefaults $false -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $false -RetainDeletedItemsFor 0
Set-Mailbox –identity “user1@Company portal .com” –RemoveDelayHoldApplied
Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity user1@Company portal .com

Answer 1

Hi @Roger Roger ,

Your commands should work well.

Users placed on an In-Place Hold, all deleted items are moved to Discovery Hold folder.
The MFA will not process items in this folder, until you remove the user from this hold first and then manually enable MFA ( Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity user1@Company portal .com ) to purge these items or wait for MFA automatically purge them.

After the process completed removing the items in DiscoveryHolds, run below command to set retain deleted items for 14 days:

Set-Mailbox <username> -RetainDeletedItemsFor 14  

You could also refer to the official document to get more information about: Revert the mailbox to its previous state

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