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| # Investigating Notes Folder Archiving in Exchange Online
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| ## Objective
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| The goal of this article is to investigate why Outlook **Notes** are being moved to the Online Archive and to verify whether **retention policies** or **archive policies** are applied to the Notes folder in Exchange Online.
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| ## Background
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| Outlook Notes are usually not impacted by retention policies or auto-archiving in Exchange Online. However, in some cases, Notes were found in the Online Archive. This article documents the steps and PowerShell commands used to investigate the issue.
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| ## Commands Used for Investigation
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| ### 1. Estimate number of Notes in mailbox
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| ```powershell
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| Search-Mailbox -Identity Kroeger@zippel24.com -SearchQuery 'Kind:notes' -EstimateResultOnly
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| Check mailbox folder statistics
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| Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity Kroeger@zippel24.com | Where-Object {$_.FolderPath -like "*Notes*"}
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| Finds all folders in the mailbox related to Notes.
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| Example folder path found: /Notizen (localized German folder name for Notes)
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| 3. Check Notes folder in the Online Archive
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| Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Archive -Identity "Kroeger@zippel24.com" | Where-Object {$_.FolderPath -like "*Notizen*"}
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