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V-259671

CAT II (Medium)

Exchange mailboxes must be retained until backups are complete.

Rule ID

SV-259671r961128_rule

STIG

Microsoft Exchange 2019 Mailbox Server Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V2R3

CCIs

CCI-001199

Discussion

Backup and recovery procedures are an important part of overall system availability and integrity. Complete backups reduce the chance of accidental deletion of important information and make it possible to have complete recoveries. It is not uncommon for users to receive and delete messages in the scope of a single backup cycle. This setting ensures at least one backup has been run on the mailbox store before the message physically disappears. By enabling this setting, all messages written to recipients who have accounts on this store will reside in backups even if they have been deleted by the user before the backup has run.

Check Content

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Get-MailboxDatabase| Select-Object -Property Name, Identity, RetainDeletedItemsUntilBackup

If the value of "RetainDeletedItemsUntilBackup" is not set to "True", this is a finding.

Fix Text

Open the Exchange Management Shell and enter the following command:

Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity <'IdentityName'> -RetainDeletedItemsUntilBackup $true

Note: The <IdentityName> value must be in quotes.