MC467234 – (Updated) Offboarding exchange online archives to on-premises when auto expanding archives are enabled is not supported (archived)

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Updated November 23, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.
This message is related to moving (offboarding) users who have auto expanding archive enabled from exchange online to on-premises servers.

[When this will happen:]

Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-November 2022 and expect to complete by late November 2022
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-December 2022 and expect to complete it by late December 2022

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2022-11-15

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2022-11-24

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2022-11-24MC prepareMailbox migrations to on-premises from auto expanding archives is not supported. Any on-going migrations will fail. The change we are putting out is to fail early and gracefully with no data loss by adding a check whether the auto-expanding archive exists for a user.
https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/enable-autoexpanding-archiving?view=o365-worldwide#before-you-enable-auto-expanding-archiving
For accounts with auto-expanding archive enabled, offboarding of archives from exchange online to on-premises is not supported. Archive offboarding already started before this change will complete. The change we are putting out is to fail early and gracefully with no data loss by adding a check whether the auto-expanding archive exists for a user.
https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/enable-autoexpanding-archiving?view=o365-worldwide#before-you-enable-auto-expanding-archiving
2022-11-24MC MessageTagNamesAdmin impactUpdated message, Admin impact
2022-11-24MC Last Updated11/15/2022 01:28:452022-11-24T01:50:37Z
2022-11-24MC MessagesThis message is related to moving (offboarding) users who have auto expanding archive enabled from exchange online to on-premises servers.

[When this will happen:]

Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-November 2022 and expect to complete by late November 2022
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-December 2022 and expect to complete it by late December 2022
Updated November 23, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.
This message is related to moving (offboarding) users who have auto expanding archive enabled from exchange online to on-premises servers.

[When this will happen:]

Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-November 2022 and expect to complete by late November 2022
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-December 2022 and expect to complete it by late December 2022
2022-11-24MC TitleOffboarding to on-premises from auto expanding archives is not supported(Updated) Offboarding exchange online archives to on-premises when auto expanding archives are enabled is not supported
2022-11-24MC How AffectFor Exchange Online users who have auto expanding archives enabled, we will block offboarding/moving their mailboxes to on-premises. This is because offboarding/moving content from auto-expanding archives is not a supported feature today. Please see details in the public documentation regarding Enable auto-expanding archiving. To quote "Auto-expanding archiving is supported for cloud-based archive mailboxes in an Exchange hybrid deployment for users who have an on-premises primary mailbox. However, after auto-expanding archiving is enabled for a cloud-based archive mailbox, you can't off-board that archive mailbox back to the on-premises Exchange organization. Auto-expanding archiving isn't supported for on-premises mailboxes in any version of Exchange Server."For Exchange Online users who have auto expanding archives enabled, we will block offboarding/moving their archives to on-premises. This is because offboarding/moving content from auto-expanding archives is not a supported feature today. Please see details in the public documentation regarding Enable auto-expanding archiving. To quote "Auto-expanding archiving is supported for cloud-based archive mailboxes in an Exchange hybrid deployment for users who have an on-premises primary mailbox. However, after auto-expanding archiving is enabled for a cloud-based archive mailbox, you can't off-board that archive mailbox back to the on-premises Exchange organization. Auto-expanding archiving isn't supported for on-premises mailboxes in any version of Exchange Server."
Scope:
If you have an account with auto-expanding archives enabled
You cannot offboard the archive (main or auxiliary archive). This was always an unsupported feature, but we are now programmatically restricting it.
You can continue to offboard the primary mailbox (no change here)
No Change to the following scenarios:
If you have an account with a regular (no auto expanding archive enabled) archive
you can offboard both primary and archive for that account (no change here)

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