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Waseem Qureshi
Oct 21, 2017Brass Contributor
Mailbox backup including archive for a retiring employee
Want to backup an employee who just left the company, his mailbox is 20gb and archive are almost same size. How can I backup his mailbox including archives in full? Would b more helpful including One...
Stephan Swinford
Oct 21, 2017Iron Contributor
Since most of our employees have E3 licenses, I've been using the Retention feature in the Security & Compliance Center to put a hold on mailboxes and OneDrives. Once it's placed under a hold you can then use eDiscovery against the held mailbox and export emails into a PST if needed.
- Oct 21, 2017Of course, you always have "the manual" approach suggested by Stephen that can work if you need to make a backup from time to time but not if this is something you need to make frequently