Understanding the Move Date in Messaging Records Management (MRM)

Exchange 2007's Messaging Records Management (MRM) feature is designed to help your organization manage messages for compliance purposes.  By using Managed Content Settings, users can have their messages moved to different folders or deleted automatically, based on age.  You also have the option to Journal these messages to any SMTP address, which is ideal for many third-party archiving systems.

One thing I've been finding in my cases is that many customers don't understand the Retention Period settings and how they are applied by the Managed Folder Assistant.  Let's take a look at a simple example to try and make this point.  Here is a typical mistake that many people make:

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