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Shared Mailbox Online Archiving Licensing in Office 365
Hello All, I have a pretty interesting question ( i may already have an answer but need little clarity on this) I have an Organization where i have more than 1000 Shared Mailboxes with Online...
No, the quota for E1 is 50GB, shared between the main mailbox and the archive. It does not get expanded, and if you mean the auto-expanding archives feature, this is only available with EO Plan 2 licenses. So in your examples, you will need EO plan 2 licenses regardless.
My rule of thumb is : if in doubt a licence is required. Ultimately there are no free lunches. The fact Microsoft does not enforce licensing is often frustrating but there are often sound operational reasons why this is permitted. Again, if common sense says you need a licence you need one! Ensure compliance with your Global or Licensing Admistrator if you have permission to create / change / delete products and services within Microsoft 365 / Office 365.
Obviously that reply is to Ankit rather than Vasil!
John Wynne That's so True :) VasilMichev - thanks for your clarification on this.
It is now globally enforced to all Tenants worldwide on the Product when customer could provision an Online Archive and Expand it too without the need for a License :)
Thanks again :)
