Microsoft Clamps Down on Auto-Expanding Archive Mailboxes

[Tony Redmond]

In a surprise development, Microsoft reversed course for Exchange Online auto-expanding archives and imposed a 1TB limit. The promise of a bottomless archive that continually expanded to cope with user data is removed. Although it’s reasonable for Microsoft to restrict the consumption of resources, suddenly implementing a limit is not, especially when you don’t communicate with customers.

https://office365itpros.com/2019/11/04/microsoft-clamps-down-auto-expanding-archive-mailboxes/

[#2]

@Tony Redmond So you get a maximum of 1.1TB (primary + archive). I think this is pretty reasonable, have you ever seen anyone even approaching this Tony?

[#3]

@CloudHal Several people have been in contact with me to say that they have archives larger than 1 TB. The largest was 1.7 TB. That's a lot of email.