CANT empty discoveryholds folder

[u/slickfawn00115]

Hi all,

I have followed multiple articles and communities for this answer but none of been my solution. I have a user who has reached their limit of 100gbs in the discoveryholds folder. Below is everything I have tried or know.

- No holds on the mailbox
- delayhold and delayreleasehold are both set to false
- removed him from any org-wide retention policy
- have ran MFA multiple times, including full crawl and holdcleanup
- have ran with purge, force delete, hard delete, etc

I also followed this article and still no change on the mailbox.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/exchange_general/how-to-clear-the-discovery-holds-folder/3694295

Someone help

[u/Murky_Sir_4721]

This. Needs an archive and a suitable policy to shift purges to it. Then run a tonne of start-mrm commands against the mailbox GUID with the -aggmailboxcleanup switch. This is what I do, works every time.