Forum Discussion
Re-importing Calendar items from In-Place Archive, back into live Exchange mailbox?
I have a user whose primary Exchange Online mailbox had hit the 50GB limit, so In-Place Archiving needed to be turned on in order to make room in live mailbox.
However, the user wants to be able to have ALL the Calendar items accessible in the live mailbox. They are fine with the Archived email items remaining in the In-Place Archive. So the questions I have are:
- If I set the user's MRM policy on the Archive Mailbox to 'No Policy' but leave In-Place Archving active, would I be able to export the Calendar items from the In-Place Archive to a PST (via Outlook) and then re-import them into the live mailbox?
- If the above were possible would all the Calendar items import back into the live mailbox's calendar in the same state they were in, in the In-Place Archive (i.e accepted, etc.)
- If the items reimport, will Outlook Reminders get triggered for all the re-imported items, in that the user would get a whole list of Calendar items showing up as Overdue?
3 Replies
- Enabling the Online archive does not automatically move items, that's decided based on the set of retention tags/retention policy assigned to the user. In this scenario, you can assign a policy that includes folder-specific tags only, so that the Calendar is not affected. Details for example here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/security-and-compliance/messaging-records-management/default-folders
- I understand. The assumption here is that an MRM Policy had already been applied and the live mailboxes items were already moved into the In-Place Archive.
The scenario that my bullet points are referring to, is under the assumption that an MRM Policy has already been applied and the items have already been moved into the In-Place Archive.- In that scenario, you can use an EWS-based script to move the messages directly, no point playing with PSTs. Here's a sample one: https://github.com/David-Barrett-MS/PowerShell-EWS-Scripts/wiki/Merge-MailboxFolders.ps1
Keep in mind that if you do not adjust the policy, items will again be moved to the archive.
