Are there best practices to auto-expand Exchange archives? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“Looking for some experienced feedback. We have lots of clients who have office365 E3 which as you maybe aware provides 100gb mailbox and unlimited archives. This works well for those users who just don’t want to do anything like delete old mail. We’ve now come across situations where some of the users in an org are reaching their 100gb archive mailbox and the plan is to enable the Autoexpanding Archive mailbox feature that then will allow them to grow to a stupid 1.5 Tb each. Checking out the service description and other posts it all looks logical and easy to setup and turn on but in practice has anyone got any views on why I shouldn’t turn it on. No matter what I say the client is not going to delete their mail (housekeep). -any hands on experience would be great before I suggest something else albeit I don’t have anything to actually offer.”

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Christian Buckley

Christian is a Microsoft Regional Director and M365 Apps & Services MVP, and an award-winning product marketer and technology evangelist, based in Silicon Slopes (Lehi), Utah. He is a startup advisor and investor, and an independent consultant providing fractional marketing and channel development services for Microsoft partners. He hosts the weekly #CollabTalk Podcast, weekly #ProjectFailureFiles series, monthly Guardians of M365 Governance (#GoM365gov) series, and the Microsoft 365 Ask-Me-Anything (#M365AMA) series.