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sandrine_goetha's avatar
sandrine_goetha
Level 6
4 years ago

Mailbox quota Archving

Hello, I just  a question from my support group. When he user is leaving its mailbox is still active for 6 months but with a flag "only you can send mail to yourself : in order words only able to re...
  • sandrine_goetha's avatar
    sandrine_goetha
    4 years ago

    Hi Gertjan,

    Once again thank you

    BUT I don't know what they do it is some case this is not just for the leavers ( in which case due to our procedures it is ok for me).

    But the question is answered as last night I could finally test it and yes the items were archived

CConsult's avatar
CConsult
Moderator

The quota is used depending on what is the most restrictive quota you have implemented, exchange wise.

Prohibit send/receive> prohibit send >warning

sandrine_goetha's avatar
sandrine_goetha
Level 6
4 years ago

Thank you for your answer even if I don't really see what you mean with this.

In exchange they all have those 3 quotas and in the normal order : warning, receive, send and receive.

I wanted to know which one as to be reached in order for the archiving to don't be able to archive.

Right now they are playing around with the mailboxes and I want to be able to say if they are archived or not

Sandrine

  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    Moderator
    4 years ago

    Hello Sandrine,

    The quota based archiving is 'most important first'.

    Send/Receive first, then Send, then Receive quota. If send/receive is set to 50MB, QBA will be done based on that. 

    See https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100025202

    Having the setting "send to self only" will not/should not affect archiving

    • sandrine_goetha's avatar
      sandrine_goetha
      Level 6
      4 years ago

      Thank you again Gertjan,

      There is the detail I have a time based archiving and NOT a quota based one.But our Provisioning team had the glorious idea to play with " receive from self only"to handle some mailboxes and now I need to know what happens to those mailboxes. I will try with some test mailboxes to be totally sure.

      You just put the finger on the point

      "Having the setting "send to self only" will not/should not affect archiving" I have to make sure it is not should.

      Regards

      Sandrine

      • GertjanA's avatar
        GertjanA
        Moderator
        4 years ago

        Hi Sandrine,

        Understand. So, if you use 'age based' archiving, and this setting is done on mailboxes of leavers, why not create a plocy for leavers exclusively? 

        Create the policy to archive everything older than 0 days, do not create shortcuts, remove shortcuts older than 1 day. Assign this to a Provisioning Group which is based on the denominator for the leavers (like an AD group/DL, AD container), and make sure to make this PG highest priority.

        If I recall correct from the time where I did have user mbx archiving, as long as the mailboxquota is not passed, EV can archive.