Governance & Compliance - Validate Maximum Retention

This article provides a guideline on how to validate Maximum Retention . This option determines how long your Mimecast account will retain archived data. If the Maximum Retention setting on your Mimecast service is changed, the new value needs to be validated by a valid Administrator from your organization to ensure that Mimecast stores your organization's data correctly.

A Mimecast Administrator account in either the Super Administrator, Full Administrator or Partner Administrator is required.

Walkthrough

When the Maximum Retention is changed on your Mimecast service, Administrators in the Super, Full, or Partner Administrator roles will be prompted to validate this change the next time they log in to the Administration Console.

If you log in to the Administration Console as a user who is not a member of the Super, Full, or Partner Administrator roles, you will be provided with this prompt:

Alternatively, to validate the change manually:

1. Log in to the Mimecast Administration Console as a Super, Full, or Partner Administrator.

2. Click on the Account | Account Settings menu item.

   
    
3. Validate that the value of the Maximum Retention (Days) field is correct.
4. Select the Confirm button.

If you log in as an Administrator who is not a member of Super, Full, or Partner Administrator roles, the Confirm button will not be available. You will instead see a field displaying Yes or No depending on whether or not the setting has been validated.

To validate that this setting is being applied, you can view the Retention Information of an email sent or received after the setting was changed and ensure that the Current Purge Date of the message is the correct number of days after the sent or received date. See the Viewing Email Retention Information article for more information.

See Also...

• Archiving - Maximum Retention Settings FAQ
• Archive Data Retention Periods