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Export a users Exchange Online Archive from the admin console.
Hi
I don't seem able to target just the archive folder from the options available
I run the search, for everything older than 1st May and get the following result, showing it's returning results from 2 mailboxes.
Going along with that search, I then try exporting, and get the following error message.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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Hi, a little bit more progress.
The final error message above was caused by using a browser other than Edge. Switching to Edge, gets rid of the error, and I'm able to download the PST.
Now, I'm being met with a problem with the Search-Mailbox query, turns out it was deprecated in January, so all I'm getting is "Search-Mailbox : The term 'Search-Mailbox' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet...." from the V3 EXO PowerShell module.
I just need a bit more help to simply delete all mails in the users mailbox older than 1st May 2024. I don't want them going to the Deleted Items folder, I just want them gone and the space freed up.
2 weeks on and still no further. I've spent 6 hours on the phone today with the tech support, and at the end of it, it seems like there is no thought out plan with what Microsoft expect from the archive, or how it will be used. Any searches and policies apply to the main mailbox, and the archive as a whole. I want to systematically delete items from the archive? Not possible, it's going to delete from the main mailbox too. Just what is the point of the archive. If everything is treated like it's in the main mailbox, then why not just keep everything in the main mailbox. Unless Microsoft's plan is that we keep increasing the online archive forever more, paying more and more per month to store an ever increasing amount, because we're not allowed to delete anything from it.
There's a problem when even the tech support has to go and ask his tech support because nothing he is trying works.