If you’ve decided to use a specific database for archive then you should click on Select a specific mailbox database rather than having one selected automatically option and select the archive database or in the cloud through the option Create a remote hosted archive and then selecting the domain that you have created previously with Microsoft Online Services. However, the administrator has a chance to create on-premise (selecting Create a local archive option). During the New Mailbox Wizard there is a page specific for personal archive which is the Archive Settings page (Figure 03) where by default it doesn’t create an archive. The Personal Archive is really simple to manage when we are creating a new mailbox.
Your company may have different goals for keeping deleted items and mailboxes as well, we are going to retrieve disconnected archive in this article series and the chance to connect them back after deletion is ruled by this page. Since, that database is going to be used just for Archive purposes we can go to the Limits tab, and remove all storage limits, and also check the Deletion Settings section. Set-MailboxDatabase –IsExcludedFromProvisioning:$trueĪfter creating the database, we can load the properties of the brand new database (Figure 02). The next step is to remove the archive database that we have just created from automatic provisioning to avoid users being created on the database. In the Set Paths page, make sure to place the database in the proper tier if you are using different tiers and then click Next, and New and Finish. In the New Mailbox Database wizard, let’s name our new mailbox database as ARC-DB01 and then Next (Figure 01). In order to do that let’s create one using the following steps: open Exchange Management Console, expand Organization Configuration, click on Mailbox, then Database Management tab and click on New Mailbox Database… in the Toolbox Actions. In this article series we are going to create a database to place all archives in a single location. We can combine mailboxes and archive data in the same database, however, keeping archives and regular mailboxes in different stores may be a better idea, especially if you are using different databases. Managing Personal Archive in Exchange Server 2010 (Part 4)