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Archiving clarifications
Hi all I would like some clarification on archiving storage of an account with an O365 Enterprise E3 license. Auto-expanding archiving is turned on. The current storage stats for the account look l...
The "archive" folder is not where you should look like, the Online archive is an additional mailbox "attached" to your primary mailbox and is usually displayed as a separate node in Outlook's nav pane. And Recoverable items stores more than deleted items, especially if the mailbox is on hold. That said, it also has a separate quote and is not counted towards the mailbox size.
So is it safe to move folders with large data to the in-place archive?
Is that the right place to utilize the unlimited archive feature?
- Yes. Do note that you need to enable the auto-expanding archive feature first, as detailed in the documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/enable-unlimited-archiving?view=o365-worldwide