Update 10/8/2025: We heard your feedback and are working on revised release plan for this feature. We will update this post (and release plan) accordingly in the near future.
TL; DR: Auto-Archiving...
Updated Oct 08, 2025
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Sounds good... until it inevitably moves "those important" messages the CEO has piled in for years :D
You cannot realistically expect end users to tag items manually, especially in scenarios where the policy is not driven by their IT team and they lack proper guidance. Thus I can agree with the point some of the above commenters are making about the need for control. As well as the short notice on this.
I also want to point out that we still do not have an easy way to move messages from the Online archive back to the main mailbox. And with the clock ticking down on EWS deprecation, with no progress on Graph API support for the archive, things can get ugly.