#M365AMA Are there best practices to auto-expand Exchange archives?
Channel: Christian Buckley
Date: 26/11/2023

“Looking for some experienced feedback. We have lots of clients who have office365 E3 which as you maybe aware provides 100gb mailbox and unlimited archives. This works well for those users who just don’t want to do anything like delete old mail. We’ve now come across situations where some of the users in an org are reaching their 100gb archive mailbox and the plan is to enable the Autoexpanding Archive mailbox feature that then will allow them to grow to a stupid 1.5 Tb each. Checking out the service description and other posts it all looks logical and easy to setup and turn on but in practice has anyone got any views on why I shouldn’t turn it on. No matter what I say the client is not going to delete their mail (housekeep). -any hands on experience would be great before I suggest something else albeit I don’t have anything to actually offer."

Participating in this discussion were:

Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
Shari Oswald  @shortcutshari
Mike Nelson  @mikenelsonIO

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

--  1.5TB? Really?
--  Use Search Folders to find messages or other Outlook items [https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/use-search-folders-to-find-messages-or-other-outlook-items-c1807038-01e4-475e-8869-0ccab0a56dc5]
--  Check out Shari's TIP!Tuesday - Archiving Email to OneNote [https://youtu.be/6-PqFu59qPA]