Once in the Purges folder, the message is retained for the duration based on the deleted item retention period configured for the mailbox if single items recovery is enabled for the mailbox. After this retention period expires (or if user purges the message before it expires), the message is moved to the Purges folder and can no longer be accessed by the user.

The user can recover messages in the Deleted Items folder for the duration based on the deleted item retention period configured for the mailbox. It isn't immediately purged from Microsoft 365. If you use the New-ComplianceSearchAction -Purge -PurgeType SoftDelete command, messages are moved to the Deletions folder in the user's Recoverable Items folder. (In Microsoft 365, single item recovery is enabled by default when a new mailbox is created.) After the deleted item retention period expires, the message is marked for permanent deletion and will be purged from Microsoft 365 the next time the mailbox is processed by the Managed Folder assistant. After the message is moved to the Purges folder, the message is retained for the duration of the deleted item retention period if single item recovery is enabled for the mailbox. New-ComplianceSearchAction -SearchName $search.Name -Purge -PurgeType HardDeleteĪ message that's deleted with the New-ComplianceSearchAction -Purge -PurgeType HardDelete command is moved to the Purges folder and can't be accessed by the user. If the search, searches more than 50,000 mailboxes, the purge action will fail.

The maximum number of mailboxes in a content search that you can use to delete items by doing a search and purge action is 50,000. This feature isn't intended to clean up user mailboxes. Because the capability to search for and remove messages is intended to be an incident-response tool, this limit helps ensure that messages are quickly removed from mailboxes. You have to use Security & Compliance Center PowerShell to delete messages.Ī maximum of 10 items per mailbox can be removed at one time.

To delete messages, you have to be a member of the Organization Management role group or be assigned the Search And Purge role in the compliance center For information about adding users to a role group, see Assign eDiscovery permissions. To create and run a Content search, you have to be a member of the eDiscovery Manager role group or be assigned the Compliance Search role in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

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