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Is Exchange Online Archiving included in E1?

Is Exchange Online Archiving included in E1?

Until recently Email archiving wasn’t included in the E1 plan. It was only included in E3,E5 plans. But this has changed so that it is now included in the E1 plan as well as per: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange-online-service-description.aspx.

What is archiving in Exchange Online?

• Exchange Online Archiving is an additional specialized mailbox that works in tandem with. your Primary Exchange Mailbox allowing messages to be quickly and easily archived to simplify mailbox size management.

Does Office 365 E1 include archiving?

While the E1 licenses allow for an archive mailbox, the capacity of the primary mailbox plus the archive mailbox is limited to a combined total of 50 GB for E1 users. So moving messages from the primary mailbox to the archive mailbox with an E1 license does not give you any additional storage capacity.

How does Exchange Online Archiving for Exchange Online Work?

Exchange Online Archiving offers users advanced archiving capabilities with the archive mailbox feature. Users can access the archive in the same way that they access their primary mailboxes. In addition, they can search both their archives and primary mailboxes.

How do I enable archiving online?

Go to https://compliance.microsoft.com and sign in.

  1. In the left pane of the Microsoft 365 compliance center, click Information governance, and then click the Archive tab.
  2. In the list of mailboxes, select the user that you want to enable the archive mailbox for.
  3. In the details pane for the selected user, click Enable.

Does Business Basic have online archive?

Exchange Online Plan 1, Office 365 E1/A1/G1, and Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium have a size limit on the mailbox and archive. Exchange Online Archiving for Exchange Online add-on adds unlimited cloud-based archive and In-Place Hold and Litigation Hold.

Does archiving reduce mailbox size?

3. Archive Older Messages. Archived items are removed from your Outlook mailbox size and moved to the archive file based on the settings you determine. Just as with the Personal Folders file, your archived items are not accessible remotely; the file should be backed up on a regular basis.

How do I enable auto-expanding archiving?

To enable auto-expanding archiving for cloud-based archive mailboxes in an Exchange hybrid deployment, you have to run the Set-OrganizationConfig -AutoExpandingArchive command in Exchange Online PowerShell to enable auto-expanding archiving for the entire organization.

How does office365 archive work?

Archiving in Microsoft 365 (also called In-Place Archiving) provides users with additional mailbox storage space. After you turn on archive mailboxes, users can access and store messages in their archive mailboxes by using Microsoft Outlook and Outlook on the web (formerly known as Outlook Web App).

How do I use in place archive?

Use the EAC to enable an archive mailbox

  1. Go to Recipients > Mailboxes.
  2. Select a mailbox.
  3. In the details pane, under In-Place Archive, click Enable.
  4. On the Create In-Place Archive page, click OK to have Exchange automatically select a mailbox database for the archive or click Browse to specify one.

Can’t enable archiving synchronized mailbox?

Please follow the steps to see if the issue can be resolved:

  1. Go to your local AD and start ADSIEDIT.
  2. Edit msExchRemoteRecipientType for the user with value 3.
  3. Run a manual AAD Connect to have the change synced to cloud.
  4. The online archive should be provisioned in less than 24 hours.

Does Business Basic include archiving?

The Storage limits in the EXO Service Description indicate that M365 Business Basic and M365 Business Standard both have a 50GB Archive. It also says Business Basic includes Archiving, which again, matches the other article – fine.