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Thursday, 19 March 2026

365 Online Archive Not Archiving

You've enabled Online Archiving for a 365 user and a few days go by and the user complains of a lack of space. This can be solved by manually starting the archiving process in PowerShell, this process is normally on a weekly schedule.

In PowerShell run: Connect-ExchangeOnline

Once logged in run: Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity "user@domain.com"


If you don't have the Connect-ExchangeOnline command run the following in admin PowerShell. I usually have this in a connection script so the module stays up to date.

Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Update-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement; Get-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement
Connect-ExchangeOnline -ShowProgress $true