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Shared Mailbox Online Archiving Licensing in Office 365
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.
Hi Vasil,
I have just tested this for close to 4 tenants, where -
1. I was able to provision online archive for a Shared Mailboxes without any license.
2. I was also able to increase Online archive (of course from help of Microsoft ) to 100 , then 130 and further 170 GB (even though the utilization wasn't that much for any of the archives.
So primary point over here is what microsoft commented in Provisioning of Shared Mailboxes to 50 GB only isnt valid for its archives.
1. Archives can be provisioned without a license.
2. With Default size of 50 GB, and if you request Microsoft to increase it does go through , which means the threshold/quota at the Backend is only valid for Primary Mailbox and not archives.
3. Without license goes upto 170 GB.
4. to go beyond 170 , you need Plan 2 or Archive license , Plan 2 gives you Primary 100 + Unlimited archive. Archive only license gives you unlimited archive with no change in Primary Mailbox (50GB).
Please review above and test from your end, cause i have tested all these above and come up with the statements mentioned.
Thanks
Ankit Shukla
There's nothing to test, the documentation is clear. The fact that Microsoft does not put restrictions in the code does not mean that you are OK to use this functionality without proper licensing. Well, you are free to use it without licenses, but if the Microsoft licensing guys come knocking on your door, things will get ugly.
- 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 :)
