How to Enable or Disable an Archive Mailbox in Office 365

Office 365 gives an extra mailbox storage space with the archiving provision. It is an additional storage location with which user can store messages. It can be made enable in Exchange Admin Center(EAC) or using Power shell commands.

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Enable Archive Mailbox using Exchange Admin Centre:

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  1. Sign in to Office 365 account.
  2. Click the app launcher icon launcher-iconand then click Admin
  3. Click the Admin centers and then click Exchange
  4. Click Recipients and then Mailboxes.
  5. Select the Mailbox which you want to Enable under in – Place archive.

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Disable Archive Mailbox using Exchange Admin Centre:

  1. Sign in to Office 365 account.
  2. Click the app launcher icon launcher-iconand then click Admin
  3. Click the Admin centers and then click Exchange
  4. Click Recipients and then Mailboxes.
  5. Select the Mailbox which you want to Disable under in – Place archive.

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Enable Archive Mailbox using Windows Powershell Command:

Connect your Exchange Online using Windows PowerShell.

Now run following command.

Enable-Mailbox -Identity “user 04” –Archive

This enables the archive for user 04 mailbox. If you need to enable an archive for all user mailboxes then run the following command.

Get-Mailbox -Filter {ArchiveStatus -Eq “None” -AND RecipientTypeDetails -eq “UserMailbox”} | Enable-Mailbox –Archive

Enable Archive Mailbox using Windows Powershell Command:

Run the below command after connecting Office 365 with Windows PowerShell.

Disable-Mailbox -Identity “user 04” -Archive

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