Folder Protection

[tkdrspm]

Hello. I have a user that completely purged one of his subfolders. Besides
the typical MS warning message when deleting a folder, is there an option
some where that will limit his access to one of his own folders? All we want
is to tag a folder with some sort of security provisions that will allow him
to still do everything possible to/in a folder and its contents EXCEPT for
deleting the actual folder. I can't seem to find a way to do this. I don't
want to make any changes to the Exchange server or mess around with a PST so
I was hoping there's some way to prevent him from deleting things on accident
even though MS warned him and he accidentally hit Yes. Any ideas are greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Shawn

 

[K. Orland]

Do you not have deleted item retention turned on? Anything deleted if you
connect to Exchange can be recovered if you have that turned on even if
you've emptied the deleted items folder.
Did this user empty his deleted items? It could still be stored as a
subfolder to deleted items. Use the folder view in Outlook to verify.

 

[tkdrspm]

Thank you for your response Kathleen. Deleted item retention is on but each
night all mailboxes have Inbox items older than 31 days moved to Deleted
Items. Sent Items over 31 days old are also moved to Deleted Items. The
Inbox and Sent Items that were moved by the system not the user will stay in
Deleted for 31 days before final purge. Items that are manually deleted by
the user are purged each night and the user knows this. Since the user in
question deleted the folder himself and forgot about it, it was purged later
that night so he couldn't have recovered the next day when he remembered that
he didn't recover it the day before. It's a hassle I know and a tough sell
to the users but SOX and mailbox size limits had to be strictly enforced.
Any suggestions for me? Thanks again, Kathleen.
Shawn

 

[K. Orland]

Since the folders are held on the server, you may want to ask this question
of the Exchange newsgroup gurus:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/co...fault.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.exchange.admin