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Stopping an E-mail Archive in Office 365
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
