🔧 Streamline Archiving with Auto-Expanding in Exchange Online Using PowerShell 🔧

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As an IT professional, it's important to understand how to optimize email archiving, especially when working with Exchange Online. A practical way to manage large volumes of data is by using Auto-expanding archiving, which automatically expands storage space when needed. Here are some steps and PowerShell commands that can help you implement this in your organization. 📌 Key points to consider: Auto-expanding archiving prevents the restoration or recovery of inactive mailboxes. To enable auto-expanding archiving, you must be a global administrator. A user's mailbox must already be enabled for archiving before you can enable auto-expanding archiving. 💡 Note: It may take up to 30 days for the auto-expanding storage to be fully established. If you want smoother management of your users' mailboxes and to improve storage efficiency, these commands are a great first step. Feel free to follow for more technical tips and solutions! 🚀
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## NOTE! Some points to consider for you and the customer

## 1- Auto-expanding archiving prevents you from restoring or recovering an inactive mailbox.

## 2- To enable auto-expanding archiving, you must be a global administrator.

## 3- A user's mailbox must already be enabled for archiving before you can enable auto-expanding archiving.

## The command Enable-Mailbox -AutoExpandingArchive enables additional storage until the auto-expanding storage is established (which can take up to 30 days).

## Install the required module first
Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -Force -AllowClobber

## Import the Exchange module so you can connect to Exchange
Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement

## Connect to Exchange Online
Connect-ExchangeOnline ## Log in with a global admin account

## Check if archiving is enabled
## Replace the email address
Get-Mailbox -Identity "EmailAddressToBeEnabled@example.com" | Format-List DisplayName, ArchiveStatus

## Enable archiving via PowerShell if it is not already enabled in the previous command that shows the status
Enable-Mailbox -Identity "EmailAddressToBeEnabled@example.com" -Archive ## NOTE!!!! Replace with the user's email address

## Enable auto-expanding archive mailbox
Enable-Mailbox "EmailAddressToBeEnabled@example.com" -AutoExpandingArchive ## NOTE!!!! Replace with the user's email address

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