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Guy Johnson
Iron Contributor
Jan 18, 2018

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??

    • Guy Johnson's avatar
      Guy Johnson
      Iron 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.

      • VasilMichev's avatar
        VasilMichev
        MVP

        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 Johnson's avatar
      Guy Johnson
      Iron 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 Allner's avatar
    Cian Allner
    Silver 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.

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