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Iron Contributor

Feb 19, 2017

Small issue with retention policies

So using the default retention policy on office 365. The default retention tag is the one that says archive after 2yrs. But that doesn't seem to have applied or at least doesn't seem to be working. ...

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NunoAriasSilva
Feb 19, 2017
Hi Jeff,

I agree with Vasil, is your mailbox an E3 with Archive activated ?

VasilMichev

MVP

Well, for what it's worth, there's an ongoing debate on the Exchange list whether we even need archiving at all now that we have 100GB primary mailboxes.

NunoAriasSilva

MVP

Feb 20, 2017

Vasil, always a good question about the Archive vs Mailbox that now have 100Gb on E3 and E5. The only thought that using Archive Policies, is if the client wants to have the x years on the Mailbox and do not have problems with .OST file regarding the size of the hard drive of the end user machines they will want to activate the Archive Mailbox. It always depends how the end user machines that could have small hard drives will respond to small free space once the Mailbox will have may Gb of data.

Adnan Rafique
Copper Contributor
Feb 20, 2017
100 GB mailboxes, if this the case and people are demanding and leaning towards it then why use Outlook client on the dsktop. it iwll be a nightmare not only for the user but also for the network to support (imagine a comapny with thusands of user). OR this is something I'm thinking wrong?
Jeff Williams
Iron Contributor
Feb 20, 2017
It's a thought. I wonder if it would help with speeding outlook up. My outlook has been incredibly slow. Even after deleting everything and recreating the offline files. My machine is surface book 16gb with 512 ssd. Should be plenty fast enough. Everything seems to run fine except outlook.
NunoAriasSilva
MVP
Feb 20, 2017
Are the Outlook still indexing ? Can you view the status of Index ?

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