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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...
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/
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.
If I restore the attribute won't the archive be restored and I'm right back where I started???
Either way I'm loosing about 10 years of e-mail I can't restore
If the archive mailbox was deleted within the last 30 days, you can give this a try: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/archive-features-in-exchange-online-archiving.aspx
"When administrators delete users from the on-premises Exchange Server, the users’ archives are also deleted. If the deleted archive mailboxes need to be recovered, the Office 365 support team can perform this recovery. A recovered archive will contain all of the mail stored in it at the time it was deleted."
Will have to call support on Monday to see if I can get the archive back without it archiving more mail
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
