Custom Managed Folder - multiple content settings. Who wins?

Question

I have the following content settings in a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy (non-applicable settings not listed):
Entire Mailbox delete IPM.Note after one year
Entire Mailbox delete IPM.Note.Microsoft.Conversation after seven days
Custom folder "Foo" where retention is disabled (so anything may be saved longer than a year)
As expected nothing is removed from the Custom Folder. Let's say I want to delete Conversation Histories after seven days in the hold folder. It is as easy as an additional content setting for the Foo folder and it will look something like this:
Entire Mailbox delete IPM.Note after one year
Entire Mailbox delete IPM.Note.Microsoft.Conversation after seven days
Custom folder "Foo" where retention is disabled (so anything may be saved longer than a year)
Custom folder "Foo" delete IPM.Note.Microsoft.Conversation after seven days
I obviously only want Conversation Histories deleted from the Foo folder and nothing else. Thx.

Answer 1

Hello PNutts,
In GEneral, there are two types of Managed folder:Managed default folders and Managed custom folders.
Managed default folders   Managed default folders are managed folder objects created for default folders such as Inbox, Deleted Items, Sent Items, and others. Exchange 2010 Setup creates a set of managed default folders. You can
use these folders or create additional ones for different sets of users.
Managed custom folders   Managed custom folders are managed folder objects you can use to create custom folders in a user's mailbox. The folders are created under a top-level folder called Managed Folders.
For your question, as Entire mailbox belongs to Managed default folders. Therefore, the content setting for managed custom folders will apply to the custom folders. And the content setting for entire mailbox will only apply to the default folders such as
Inbox.
Should you have any other question or concern, feel free to let us know.
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