Hi,
I have been trying to work with Office 365 Support since March 14th with an Exchange online request. I am now to the point where the support team does not respond to my emails or my ticket updates. I don't know of anywhere I can seriously file a complaint about this. Neither the technician nor his manager will respond, and I don't seem to have any recourse. Thankfully this is not a mission critical request, but I am very concerned about what may happen when we get to that. See email trail & online request trail below. I have opened a new request, and the new technician seems to understand me, but working on this current request has been awful. I know this is not a technical question, but if anyone knows where I can send my complaint, I would seriously appreciate it. Thanks.
Original Request:
I would like to increase the retention policy for my E1 plan. My understanding from the link below is that the maximum I can increase it to with E1 is 30 days and I must contact support to do so. Please confirm and please change it to 30 days.
Thanks.
http://help.outlook.com/en-US/beta/hh125820.aspx
"To change the retention period for deleted items in mailboxes in your organization, you must contact Office 365 support. The retention period can be set to any length of time. However, if you want to retain deleted items for longer than 30 days, the mailbox must have an Exchange Online (Plan 2) user license."
Email Trail:
3/14/2012
Hello Matthew,
My name is Ankush. I am the Support Professional working with you and will be the single point of contact for you on this case.
You can reach me using the contact information below, and referencing the Service Request # 1173290751.
I am researching on the issue and will call you once I have some potential information.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Thank you for choosing Microsoft.
Thanks,
Ankush Rajbhar
Microsoft Technical Support Engineer | Microsoft – Online Services Support |Phone – 425.635.2998 (Ext 66275) |Email v-anraj@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
My Team Manager | Yusuf Bootwala| Office Phone – 425.635.2998 Ext - 68081 | Email – v-9yub@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
3/15/2012
Hi,
My case status online says you are waiting for info from me. I just want to make sure that isn’t the case, and please give me an update.
Thanks.
Matt
3/21/2012
Hello Matthew,
Greetings!! Hope you are doing great today.
This is in Reference to Microsoft Case # 1173290751 (Issue: Change administrator retention policy)
I tried contacting you today but was were not able to reach you as the call was redirected to voice mail.
Please let me know the suitable time and number to contact you.
If you have any queries or concerns please feel free to contact me I will be more than glad to assist you further. You can find my contact details in my signature
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Online Services Technical Support
Thanks,
Ankush Rajbhar
Microsoft Technical Support Engineer | Microsoft – Online Services Support |Phone – 425.635.2998 (Ext 66275) |Email v-anraj@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
My Team Manager | Yusuf Bootwala| Office Phone – 425.635.2998 Ext - 68081 | Email – v-9yub@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
3/21/2012
Hello Matthew,
Greetings!! Hope you are doing great today.
This is in Reference to Microsoft Case # 1173290751 (Issue : Change administrator retention policy)
Kindly check the link mention below giving the brief description of the retention policy for deleted Items and deleted mailbox.
http://community.office365.com/en-us/b/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/09/28/how-does-exchange-online-back-up-my-data.aspx
If you have any queries or concerns please feel free to contact me I will be more than glad to assist you further. You can find my contact details in my signature
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Online Services Technical Support.
http://community.office365.com/en-us/b/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/09/28/how-does-exchange-online-back-up-my-data.aspx
Thanks,
Ankush Rajbhar
Microsoft Technical Support Engineer | Microsoft – Online Services Support |Phone – 425.635.2998 (Ext 66275) |Email v-anraj@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
My Team Manager | Yusuf Bootwala| Office Phone – 425.635.2998 Ext - 68081 | Email – v-9yub@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
3/21/2012
Ankush,
Please check the following link and read the section labeled "Retention Period for Deleted Items."
http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/hh125820.aspx
In my initial request to you I quoted the following:
"To change the retention period for deleted items in mailboxes in your organization, you must contact the Office 365 support. The retention period can be set to any length of time. However, if you want to retain deleted items for longer than 30 days, the mailbox must have an Exchange Online (Plan 2) user license."
We have an Exchange online plan E1, and I would like the retention period for deleted items increased to 30 days.
Please forward this to the appropriate people to make the change.
thanks.
Matt
3/27/2012
Ankush – Yusuf,
I have updated this request many times online requesting an update. Are you following this request? Can you give me an update? I just left a phone message for Yusuf as Ankush’s phone disconnects when I enter his extension.
This is extremely frustrating that you cannot take care of my request.
Please contact me.
3/28/2012
From: Ankush Rajbhar [mailto:v-9anraj@mssupport.microsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:38 AM
To: Matthew
Subject: SR#1173290751 | Issue : Change administrator retention policy
Hello Matthew,
Greetings!! Hope you are doing great today.
This is in Reference to Microsoft Case # 1173290751 (Issue : Change administrator retention policy)
As per our telephonic conversation forwarding you the power shell command to perform the task to change the administrator retention policy to 30 days.
Kindly check the attachment for the same.
If you have any queries or concerns please feel free to contact me I will be more than glad to assist you further. You can find my contact details in my signature
Thank you for contacting the Microsoft Online Services Technical Support.
Thanks,
Ankush Rajbhar
Microsoft Technical Support Engineer | Microsoft – Online Services Support |Phone – 425.635.2998 (Ext 66275) |Email v-anraj@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
My Team Manager | Yusuf Bootwala| Office Phone – 425.635.2998 Ext - 68081 | Email – v-9yub@mssupport.microsoft.com | Hours: 10.00AM – 8.00PM PST, M-F
From: Matthew
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:49 AM
To: Ankush Rajbhar
Cc: v-9yub@mssupport.microsoft.com
Subject: RE: SR#1173290751 | Issue : Change administrator retention policy
Importance: High
Ankush,
I have tried to explain this to you approximately 10 times. The powershell script you just sent me changes the deleted items retention policy (I have attached the instructions you sent) which would set items to be removed from deleted items after 30 days. This is not at all what I want. You have no understanding of what I am talking about, and I think it is time for us to re-assign this request to someone who can read the documentation I sent and take care of the request. Please let me know how we go about doing that.
Yusuf, if you can provide any insight and re-assign this request to someone who understands it, I would appreciate it.
Thanks.
Matt
From: Matthew
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:33 AM
To: 'Ankush Rajbhar'
Cc: 'v-9yub@mssupport.microsoft.com'
Subject: RE: SR#1173290751 | Issue : Change administrator retention policy
Yusuf,
Can you please provide an update?
Tue 4/3/2012 2:19 PM
Ankush & Yusuf,
What is our service level agreement? Is there any timeframe that you will resolve (or even respond to) requests? Yusuf, do you have a manager I can speak with?
I would love to receive a response to an email or to one of the 5 requests for updates that I submitted online.
Thanks.
Matt