{"id":229,"date":"2023-10-23T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:15:08","slug":"m365-exchange-online-archiving-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"M365 Exchange Online Archiving &#038; Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Received a call that a VIP user was not receiving emails or able to send. The quick check to confirm how much room was left in the mailbox. With 20% available the assumption is some sort of connectivity issue. Checking the size of the Online Archive revealed that it was full, and the user must have been ignoring warnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By default an Online Archive mailbox is limited to 100GB, hitting this limit will prevent sending emails from the user&#8217;s mailbox even if it has plenty of room. When we added the license for this we read &#8220;autoexpanding&#8221; as the default but no, you have to activate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some downsides to activating autoexpansion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>you can no longer recover or restore the mailbox if it is made inactive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you can only use Content Search on the contents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You have two options for enabling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Enable for the organization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enable for just the user<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Enabling for the organization <\/strong>seems like the easy way out however once Autoexpanding Archives and given the limitations you will want to be selective and limit it to super high volume email users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Powershell&gt;<code>Set-OrganizationConfig -AutoExpandingArchive<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Enabling for just the user<\/strong> has additional advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The user&#8217;s existing Archive is expanded from 100GB to 110GB allowing email sending to resume and the warning quota moves from 90GB to 100GB.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the primary mailbox is on hold or subject to a retention policy, the recoverable items quota is also increased by 10GB.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Powershell&gt;<code>Enable-Mailbox -AutoExpandingArchive<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until it breaks here is the source documentation <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/purview\/enable-autoexpanding-archiving\">https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/purview\/enable-autoexpanding-archiving<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received a call that a VIP user was not receiving emails or able to send. The quick check to confirm how much room was left in the mailbox. With 20% available the assumption is some sort of connectivity issue. Checking the size of the Online Archive revealed that it was full, and the user must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}