Category Archives: Information Management Policy

How to force Expiration/Retention policy to execute on SharePoint 2010

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Bernado

The Expiration/Retention policy (part of Information Management Policy) is executed by a couple of timer jobs. In 2007 these jobs are under the PolicyConfigService at the Farm level, and you can modify the schedule of these jobs to run very … Continue reading →

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How to pass parameters/config data into custom Expiration formula

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Bernado

When developing a custom Expiration formula in SharePoint you may want to pass in parameters/config data for the formula, e.g. only expire items where field X has value Y. The method that you needs to implement for your formula has … Continue reading →

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How to “unexpire” an item so that it will be processed again by the Expiration Information Management Policy

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Bernado

In SharePoint, when an Information Management Policy is executed on an item and Expiration is enabled, and that item is deemed to be expired, then the item will not be evaluated for Expiration again at the next evaluation time. When an item … Continue reading →

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