Office 365 - use shared mailbox to archive?
One of my Office 365 clients has 2 users approaching their 50GB mailbox limit and they don't seem to be able to find enough items to permanently delete / purge to free up space. Yeah, I know, 50GB of mail is crazy!
My question is regarding what seems to be a 'gray' area.
As opposed to creating a local PST archive, what about creating a Shared Mailbox for each user approaching 50GB that they only have access to and then having them 'archive' to that mailbox? I don't see / can't find anything by MSFT that explicilty forbids it.
My question is regarding what seems to be a 'gray' area.
As opposed to creating a local PST archive, what about creating a Shared Mailbox for each user approaching 50GB that they only have access to and then having them 'archive' to that mailbox? I don't see / can't find anything by MSFT that explicilty forbids it.
FOX
Scion, What type of license do they have for o365. Is there an archive even turned on for the mailbox or are you telling us the mailbox and the archive limits have been reached?
ASKER
Business Premium. For that Plan mailbox and archive have a *combined* limit of 50GB (not 50GB each), so the mailbox archive feature does not help.
I don't know your financial constraints or user base but for another $8/month per user the E3 licensing will give you a 100gb mailbox and 100gb archive storage
You can just get the standalone Exchange Online Archiving plan: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange-online-archiving-service-description.aspx
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FOX, I don't think they'd want to pay $8 per month for the E3.
Vasil, same for the archiving online.
I guess I'm down to in-house PST or the original question:
What about creating a Shared Mailbox for each user approaching 50GB that they only have access to and then having them 'archive' to that mailbox?
Vasil, same for the archiving online.
I guess I'm down to in-house PST or the original question:
What about creating a Shared Mailbox for each user approaching 50GB that they only have access to and then having them 'archive' to that mailbox?
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Vasil,
Thanks. I agree - it is a 'gray' area. Can't find an 'official' statement from Microsoft so I'll assume I can use a shared mailbox to hold obsolete emails for a licensed user. Thanks all!
Thanks. I agree - it is a 'gray' area. Can't find an 'official' statement from Microsoft so I'll assume I can use a shared mailbox to hold obsolete emails for a licensed user. Thanks all!