Glen's Exchange and Office 365 Dev Blog

As there has been a bit of talk about archiving lately and the new Archive Folder vs the Online Archive in Office365  https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Archive-in-Outlook-2016-for-Windows-25f75777-3cdc-4c77-9783-5929c7b47028?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US  and https://www.petri.com/exchange-online-archive-options  .I'd though I'd do a post about the Archive Item operation in EWS which was introduced in Exchange 2013 and is an interesting lever for admins to use if they want to look a manually archiving items to a Mailboxes online archive without using Archive Policies. The Archive Item operation is basically designed to allow you to move items from the Primary to the Online Archive more easily instead of having to batch a Move operation. To use this operation you need to enumerate the Items you want to archive (using a search filter or other restriction) and then provide that as one of the inputs for archive Items as longs a...

As time passes we all receive more and more email, this is one of the irrefutable facts of life for any mail system or anybody with a mailbox. Even the most fastidious of deleters still can't avoid this so at some point in the future you may need to consider achieving. The fact is your users maybe already self archiving using PST files which like self medicating can lead to serious problems down the track when their laptop goes under a bus. Exchange 2010 introduced native achieving and SP1 when its released will build on these capabilities, for other versions of exchange there are a bunch of other fine products you can look at to do this. If your looking to ingest PST's into an online archive you may want to first review what content your going to be importing and look at things like how many attachments and what type are they and how old is the content to give you a feel for what your going to be storing and potentially having to backup. What this boils down to is if you wan...