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Guy Johnson
Jan 18, 2018Iron Contributor
Stopping an E-mail Archive in Office 365
Wondering if I can get a little guidance.
I setup my Office365 Exchange Online e-mail to archive as a test to see how it works, etc.
I'm now trying to stop that archive but when I use the O365 Exchange admin center it tells me that I have to do this from the on premise Exchange. We don't have Exchange on premise any more it's in the cloud. The only thing left on premise is our Active Directory.
How do I go about stopping the archive??
How did you enable the archive in the first place? And how did you provision the mailbox? If it was an On-Prem mailbox, you will probably have to play a bit with the attributes in AD, read here: https://www.michev.info/Blog/Post/1228/
- Guy JohnsonIron Contributor
Vasil,
The link you sent me worked great and I was able to stop the archive.
One issue though it immediately deleted the archive I had and didn't give me a chance to recover all the archived e-mail.
Oh well, sorry for not being clear about this. The link Dominik Hoefling provided should help you with the recovery process and you can also just restore the attributes On-Prem in order to reconnect the archive.
- Guy JohnsonIron Contributor
Thanx Vasil
The archive was created in the O365 Exchange admin center. The mailbox came from an on premise Active Directory and Exchange when we went to O365 years ago.
Will look at the link in the morning
- Cian AllnerSilver Contributor
Not sure if this helps, I had to do this way back, think it was initiated on-prem and the change synced and the in-place archive was deprovisioned.
It's the scenario 2 listed here, that I am thinking of - Disable-RemoteMailbox. Think you'd have to have access to the Exchange Management Shell to try this. I think you are meant to keep an Exchange Server to remain supported and perform certain management tasks after hybrid.
Anyway, this may not fit your scenario.
- Guy JohnsonIron Contributor
Don't believe I can do this as I don't have an Exchange serve on premise. That defeats the purpose of moving to the cloud.
- Cian AllnerSilver Contributor
I know what you mean. This is the guidance I have in mind
How and when to decommission your on-premises Exchange servers in a hybrid deployment
Specifically, scenario two is the one I'm thinking of. Worth reviewing anyway in case it's relevant.