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OneTechBeyond
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Jun 01, 2024

Disable MRM Policy on a mailbox, while leaving In-Place Archiving enabled in Exchange Online?

I have a user whose Exchange Online currently has an MRM retention policy applied, as well as having In-Place Archiving enabled.

 

However, I now want the user to be able to have all their mailbox items, going forward, to remain in their live mailbox, while still keeping the items in the In-Place Archive active and available to them for reference when needed.

 

If I change just the MRM retention policy to "No Policy" for this user's mailbox, will that leave the In-Place Archive active while stopping any new/future items in the user's live mailbox from being automatically moved into the In-Place Archive?

  • You can unassign the policy, it will have no effect on the Archive mailbox. Keep in mind that the MRM policy is/can be responsible for more than just moving messages to the archive, for example cleaning up Deleted items, or freeing up space in the RecoverableItems subtree. Consider simply removing the default archive tag instead, or creating a new policy without such.

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