Empty deleted items policy exchange 2010

Hi guys,Before setting up a retention policy to delete items for our entire company such as in this post http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/484208-exchange-2010-automatic-purge-of-deleted-items?started_...
I'd like to test it on my user only. The problem is that when I try to do it the original settings still remain. Recipient Configuration -> mailbox -> my mailbox properties -> mailbox settings -> storage quotas properties -> there I change the "keep deleted items (days)" to 1 so I can test it on myself but after clicking "ok" and then going back, it changes back to 30 and there is still a checkmark next to "Do not perm delete items until you back up the database". What am I missing here?
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Hi Babu ,
Based on my knowledge i have given some suggestions please have a look in to it.
1.We cannot use the search-mailbox command specifically for any folder in the mailbox.But we can use it for a whole mailbox.Below is the command which will copy the entire contents of the mailbox to the target folder called as "backup" .
Search-Mailbox -Identity "problematic mailbox name" -TargetMailbox "test mailbox" -TargetFolder "backup" -LogLevel Full -deletecontent
Note : Before executing the above command , please execute the below.
New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Name "Import Export_Enterprise Support" -SecurityGroup "Enterprise Support" -Role "Mailbox Import Export"
Once the above command is executed then you need to add your admin account to the security group "Enterprise Support" and then use the Search-Mailbox command to copy the entire items to the target mailbox and also it will delete all the copied
items from the original mailbox.
2.Another one option is to use the MFCMAPI tool to force delete the items on the deleted items folder.
Most importantly before doing all the above , please share me the error message what your users are facing while deleting the items from deleted items folder.
Thanks & Regards S.Nithyanandham

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