O365 Archive Retention Policy
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I am so out of practice, I haven't done anything like this in like 2 years, and my engineer (make that EX engineer) left me in the lurch this week.
Have a client on Office365 who has one year retention policy before things move to archiving. When the policy is applied shouldn’t the local PST purge older emails. There is one mailbox where is local OST is 50GB but his cloud email size is 3GB. Is it still retaining old messages prior to the migration?
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PSTs should not be part of the archive retention. Exchange does not control PSTs. PSTs are outside of Exchange central management - one of the many reasons that they are often recommended against.
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So maybe I am asking it wrong. How exactly do the emails move to archiving and out of the main mailbox?
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@Minion-Queen said:
So maybe I am asking it wrong. How exactly do the emails move to archiving and out of the main mailbox?
We've always done it manually
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Is this what you are looking for?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/archive-features-in-exchange-online-archiving.aspx
Unless I'm missing something.
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Thank you! I think that is what I am looking for. I am so out of practice doing this stuff.....
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When I moved to Exchange Online, I copied many years of messages from my IMAP server to Exchange. Suddenly they were gone! Here it archived everything 2 years or older to the In-Place archive.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Thank you! I think that is what I am looking for. I am so out of practice doing this stuff.....
Find a new minion
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Yes I believe it should be automatic but hopefully that link will get me where I need to go
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@Breffni-Potter said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Thank you! I think that is what I am looking for. I am so out of practice doing this stuff.....
Find a new minion
He starts next week.
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So you mention an OST file as well - does this user have a 50 GB OST locally also? DAMN!
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@Minion-Queen said:
@Breffni-Potter said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Thank you! I think that is what I am looking for. I am so out of practice doing this stuff.....
Find a new minion
He starts next week.
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@Dashrender said:
So you mention an OST file as well - does this user have a 50 GB OST locally also? DAMN!
Yeah it is a bit excessive. But he is the President of the company so who knows......
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But and OST?
I guess they don't corrupt as badly as they used to with PSTs. but still going fully online with OWA would be seemingly desirable. but what do I know
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Maybe he is like me and doesn't like OWA.
AND BEGIN...
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@IRJ said:
What is wrong with OWA?
I just like my older version of Outlook better.
Nothing wrong with it, per se.
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OWA is a universally working platform, but the interface feels foreign to me.
I only use it if I must, which isn't often.
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As far as webmail is concerned, I like it.
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In reality not many users actually use any features that aren't in OWA.
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Yeah we did a whole thread about this. My bad.
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OWA is a bit annoying for when I am writing 1 email whilst referencing another. Happy using both but I can clear through emails faster in Outlook
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@Breffni-Potter said:
OWA is a bit annoying for when I am writing 1 email whilst referencing another. Happy using both but I can clear through emails faster in Outlook
I'm pretty sure you can open a new window with OWA for a new message.
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@Dashrender You can, but it still feels weird doing it that way.
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The red outlined box is a separate window - you can pop it out with the icon in the upper right hand corner of a new message in OWA (that's O365 OWA)
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@Dashrender said:
The red outlined box is a separate window - you can pop it out with the icon in the upper right hand corner of a new message in OWA (that's O365 OWA)
Feels like a stranger in the tub.
(family guy reference for anyone wondering)
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WHAT?!?!
