Thanks for this link, very good detailed information. Thank god for those MSDN blogs. Greg Lara -----Original Message----- From: Danny [mailto:nocmonkey@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 11:47 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Hi deleted item retention period http://www.MSExchange.org/ > c. Give me answer in the context of 2000, 2003 Exchange servers also. Have a read through the following link for more information on the background IS processes: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeremyk/archive/2004/06/12/154283.aspx