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Exclude inactive mailboxes from all org holds

Bartosz Filipczak 1 Reputation point
2021-08-24T14:33:09.783+00:00

Hi all! We're trying to exclude all inactive mailboxes from all org holds (retention policy) to convert them to temporary (183 days by design) soft-deleted state to allow them to be auto-purged after that time. We created this so far:

$Inactive = Get-Mailbox -InactiveMailboxOnly -Filter "(LitigationHoldEnabled -eq 'false')" # that's correct, we get the correct value in this variable. We want to get inactive AND not under litigation

$Inactive | foreach {Set-Mailbox -Identity $_ -ExcludeFromAllOrgHolds} # that's not correct, it gives "cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'Identity'. Cannot convert value "INACTIVE" to type..."

any ideas how to make the 2nd line work? I'd greatly appreciate that!

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  1. Kael Yao-MSFT 37,676 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-08-25T05:57:47.727+00:00

    Hi @Bartosz Filipczak

    Please try this command and see if it works for you: 

    $Inactive = Get-Mailbox -InactiveMailboxOnly -Filter "(LitigationHoldEnabled -eq 'false')"  
$Inactive | foreach {Set-Mailbox -Identity $Inactive.DistinguishedName -ExcludeFromAllOrgHolds}

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