OneDrive Archival of Unlicensed Users
The change enforcing archival of unlicensed OneDrive users after 93 days was announced in January of last year but seems to be hitting tenants very gradually. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/unlicensed-onedrive-accounts?WT.mc_id=365AdminCSH_spo I'm curious what other organizations are doing to tackle this change and how widespread the rollout has been so far. When the change was announced, did your organizations do anything to prepare? For those of you who are already seeing archival in your tenant When did it actually begin? Particularly for very high volumes of unlicensed accounts, how are you handling this? Have you had any luck with Purview content search and export for retrieval of files?Primer: How to Use RBAC for Applications to Control App Use of the Mail.Send Permission
The temptation to use the Mail.Send application permission in scripts can lead PowerShell developers into trouble because the permission allows access to all mailboxes, including sensitive executive and financial mailboxes. Fortunately, RBAC for Applications allows tenants to control the access that apps have to mailboxes and other Exchange content. All explained here with an example script to test RBAC of Applications. https://office365itpros.com/2026/02/17/mail-send-rbac-for-applications/
Microsoft Removes Reactivation Fee for Archived SharePoint Sites
Microsoft 365 Archive will no longer charge fees to reactivate archived SharePoint Online sites after March 31, 2025. The good news might encourage higher use of Microsoft 365 Archive to store old but wanted material in a safe location while removing it from the view of apps like Microsoft 365 Copilot. The reduction in fees does not apply to archived OneDrive for Business accounts. https://office365itpros.com/2025/02/26/reactivate-sites-no-fee/
In-Place Archive not appearing in Apple iPad
Iam currently using 3 Apple Devices (MacBook, Iphone16 and iPad) with O365 E3 License. I have configured O365 Desktop Client app on all 3 devices. After configuration, In-Place archive is showing on MacBook, iPhone 16 perfectly but on iPad its not showing. I tried to reinstall the app, upgraded iPad with latest version but still no luck. I tried it on another iPad as well but In Place archive not appearing on other iPad as well. Please suggest.
How to migrate mailbox with over 500 GB - Migration from GWS to M365
Hello, I am trying to migrate GWS mailboxes with over 500 GB to M365 utilizing third-party tool. I have around 50 mailboxes over 200 GB and 10 mailboxes over 500 GB. With third-party tool, I can migrate Gmail to archive mailbox of M365. and I am aware of the fact that it needs auto-expanding feature of archive mailbox. So I have enabled auto-expanding feature for those archive mailbox. However, the thing is the daily growth rate and It cannot exceed 1GB/day as I noticed through below link. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/enable-autoexpanding-archiving#more-information The link says like this. Auto-expanding archiving is supported only for mailboxes used by individual users or for shared mailboxes with a growth rate that doesn't exceed 1 GB per day. Is there any way to speed up the growth rate? And provisioning speed also matters. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/enable-autoexpanding-archiving#before-you-enable-auto-expanding-archiving the link goes like under. After you turn on auto-expanding archiving, an archive mailbox is converted to an auto-expanding archive when the archive mailbox (including the Recoverable Items folder) reaches 90 GB. It can take up to 30 days for the additional storage space to be provisioned. Is there any way to shorten the days for the additional storage space to be provisioned? How can I overcome this circumstances? or is there an other method to do this? Thank you in advance.
Prevent users from signing into Microsoft 365 accounts that aren't a part of our tenant.
Many of our users have a Microsoft 365 account with the company that we do business with. The account is used to access a catalog but they are not licensed. This has caused problems when users sign into their Office applications with the wrong account and they can't figure out why their applications don't have full functionality. I would like to find a way to prevent our users from signing into Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, etc.) with their other account. We are using Entra AD and Intune.
