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How to increase a mailbox size ?
what can i do if i need 300 GB and can't delete those emails at all?
With E3 and E5 in theory you should get unlimited archiving, wich is the MS solution to your problem. Unfortunately though I think the ulimited archiving rollout has been paused.
Maybe TonyRedmond can tell us what is the present situation.
Expandable archives were paused https://www.petri.com/exchange-online-expandable-archives-paused but my understanding is that the deployment is now complete or almost complete across all Office 365 datacenter regions.
The original question is what to do when a mailbox gets to 100 GB. Well, primary mailboxes do not have auto-expand capability, so when you get to 100 GB, your mailbox stops being able to accept new mail. That's the reason why running retention policies to remove or archive old content is a good idea. So the right answer is to archive-enable the large mailbox and apply a retention policy to remove old content and let MFA move the information for you.
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Salvatore - that's news, never heard about that. On the hand link in my previous post was updated only a week ago, no changes announced.
And that's interesting "unlimited" is only marketing trick and some actual limit exists (i know about the theoretical limit, but that's huge number) - afraid no one tested.
