ELC Assistant lock in MRM diagnostic logs

Question

Hello,

I am currently checking MRM diagnostic logs. From the report, I am seeing ELC assistant lock value as 0 or 1. I observed only these two values and not sure if anything exists apart from these.

I used following commands to check how long and how many items were moved by "Managed folder assistant"

$logProps = Export-MailboxDiagnosticLogs <mailboxID> -ExtendedProperties $xmlprops = [xml]($logProps.MailboxLog) $xmlprops.Properties.MailboxTable.Property | ? {$_.Name -like "ELC*"}

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/troubleshoot/retention/troubleshoot-mrm-email-archive-deletion

However, I didn't find any information on the ELC assistant lock.

A sample data:

Name Value

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ElcAssistantLock 1 ElcLastRunTotalProcessingTime 240374 ElcLastRunSubAssistantProcessingTime 206663 ElcLastRunUpdatedFolderCount 69 ElcLastRunTaggedFolderCount 0 ElcLastRunUpdatedItemCount 329

Let me know what the values for assistant lock are actually meant!!

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Hi @Surya kumar ,

I've never seen any official document explaining the meaning of "ElcAssistandLock", but based on my research and test, it seems that “ElcAssistantLock” is a property that indicates whether the mailbox folder assistant is running or not for a mailbox.

During my test, the Value of this property is 0 at the very beginning, then I ran Start-ManagedFolderAssistant against the mailbox followed by the same commands to check ELC* properties, this time the value turned to 1:

Found the link below discussed a similar question for your reference:
What is ElcAssistantLock 0
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