Archiving Rules tab

Table: Exchange mailbox policy Archiving Rules tab settings lists the settings on the Archiving Rules tab. These settings control the use of age-based and mailbox storage quota-based archiving, and other archiving options.

Table: Exchange mailbox policy Archiving Rules tab settings

Setting	Description	Default value
Archiving strategy	You can choose to base archiving on one of the following: Age: the age of an item Quota: the percentage of the mailbox storage limit that is released Age and quota: a combination of the Age and Quota options For information on configuration of archiving based on quota or age and quota, see the Administrator's Guide.	Archiving is based on the period of time since an item was modified. The time period is six months. Setting is locked.
Age based	The period of time to use for Age based archiving and Age and quota based archiving.	Six months.
Quota based	The percentage to use for Quota based archiving and Age and quota based archiving.	10%
Never archive items younger than	An absolute limit on the age of items that are archived.	Two weeks.
Start with items larger than	The size above which the Exchange Mailbox Tasks give priority to items. Items larger than this size are archived first.	Not set.
Archive only messages with attachments	Archive an item only if it has an attachment, assuming all other archiving criteria are met. Note that this is not the same as archiving attachments only. See the Administrator's Guide for more details.	Not set.