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Title
How can the Archive Manager Retention Service be forced to run immediately? -
Description
How can the Archive Manager Retention Service be run immediately without having to wait forthe next scheduled run time?
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Cause
The Archive Manager Retention Service can only be scheduled to run on the hour and can not be scheduled to run immediately through the Archive Manager Retention Policy editor.
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Resolution
1) Stop the Archive Manager Message Retention Policy Service.
2) C:\Program Files(x86)\Quest\Archive Manager or the Dell folder if version 5.3 or earlier.
From the command prompt , execute the following command
"RetentionPolicyService.exe" -ns -console
3) This will cause the policy set by the Archive Manager Retention policy editor to be executed immediately.
Note: When running retention from the command line in AM 5.x all items may not be removed the first run. Some items may take several runs to be removed.