What is the System Cleanup folder used for?

[Glenn Graessle]

I noticed a folder called System Cleanup at the same level as my Inbox in
Outlook 2007. It has an Inbox folder and a Sent Items folder. The inbox has
several items that look like messages that should have been archived, but my
archive folder is a pst file local to my machine. The System Cleanup folder
appears to be on my company Outlook Server.

I did not create this folder. What created it and what is it for? Can I
archive the messages in it and delete it? Will it come back later if I
deleted it

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook does not create such a folder - ask your Exchange Admin about it as
it is a third party issue.

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After furious head scratching, Glenn Graessle asked:

| I noticed a folder called System Cleanup at the same level as my
| Inbox in Outlook 2007. It has an Inbox folder and a Sent Items
| folder. The inbox has several items that look like messages that
| should have been archived, but my archive folder is a pst file local
| to my machine. The System Cleanup folder appears to be on my company
| Outlook Server.
|
| I did not create this folder. What created it and what is it for?
| Can I archive the messages in it and delete it? Will it come back
| later if I deleted it

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It's a special folder created by Exchange for System cleanup when the admin
set up and enabled a mailbox manager policy on exchange. It will come back
if you delete it (assuming it lets you delete it, it should be a special
folder that is not deletable.)

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998071.aspx - or speak to
your administrator.


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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[John Mayson]

It's your corporate policy at work. Thanks to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
companies don't want old records lying about and will automatically delete
Outlook items after a certain amoint of time.