Retention Policy Statistics Report

The Retention Policy Statistics report lists each retention policy in priority order, along with the policy’s type, name, duration, number of users and messages affected by the policy, and the total storage size of the policy.

Retention Policy Statistics

Field

Description

#

Priority of the retention policy.

The higher priority (smaller number) policy controls the retention duration of messages included in multiple retention policies.

Type

Category of retention policy.

Capture: Capture Based Policy: Retention rules apply to messages to or from users in the policy at the time the message was captured.

Membership: Membership Based Policy: Retention rules apply to users currently in the policy.

Retention Hold: Query-Based Retention Hold: An Email Archival Reviewer identifies specific messages (found by a query) to be retained indefinitely.

User Classification: User Classification Policy: Allows designated users to determine which messages are retained under the policy.

Policy Name

The name of the retention policy

Retention

The length of time (days) the messages governed by the policy are kept.

Statistics (Daily Snapshot)

Users

The number of users included in the scope of the policy.

This count includes only current policy membership. No historical information is maintained as users are added to or removed from a policy.

Messages

The number of messages included within the scope of the policy.

This count includes only current policy scope. No historical information is maintained.

Total size

The total storage space required for all the messages within the scope of the policy.

This value includes only current storage space. No historical information is maintained.