How do I safely archive very large email accounts? #M365AMA

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

“I have a question, running MS365 and have 120 email accts – our help@ is at 90GB. . How are people archiving accts that large? PST via pop on a local outlook? Thanks”

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Mike Nelson, MVP  @mikenelsonIO
• Hal Hostetler, MVP  @TVWizard

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• Per Microsoft Support, Archive items manually [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/archive-items-manually-ecf54f37-14d7-4ee3-a830-46a5c33274f6]
• More guidance from Microsoft Support, Reduce the size of your mailbox and Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost) [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/reduce-the-size-of-your-mailbox-and-outlook-data-files-pst-and-ost-e4c6a4f1-d39c-47dc-a4fa-abe96dc8c7ef]
• From Microsoft Learn, The file size limits of .pst and .ost files are larger in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/outlook/file-size-limits-of-pst-and-ost-files-are-larger]
• Some 3rd party guidance, from Infosecurity Magazine [https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/manage-pst-microsoft-outlook/]