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How to restrict Online Archive options for individual folders through Exchange?

My goal is to remove the 1 year and 5 year archive options for individual Outlook folders for end users. I am on https://compliance.microsoft.com/homepage > Data Lifecycle Management > Exchange (...
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archiving outlook messages to local windows HDD

I am using outlook via outlook.live.com in chrome. I have exceeded the allowed free storage. I would like to archive some of the older messages to my local windows HDD which should reduce the storage ...
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Gmail Outlook IMAP - archive

I have an IMAP folder in Outlook synching with my Gmail account. I need to delete a lot of email from Gmail to free up space. However, I need to keep these deleted emails in my Outlook. I assume I ...
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Outlook archives for mobile and home

I have moved my Outlook archive files to a file server because my new laptop with an SSD doesn't have enough storage to store them locally. The problem is that when I am away from home base the laptop ...
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Can we enforce Windows 10 app to retain all old emails (not archiving them)?

I migrated to the native email app in Windows 10 in order to reach emails from my new employers server/exchange. The account is of Outlook type. It was convenient to set up and I used it for a few ...
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Archive settings in Microsoft Outlook 2016, do not migrate any mail located in subfolders

So, I've been experimenting with a few computers, and various settings, but the long and short is that Outlook 2016 seems to simply ignore all subfolders when archiving. Here are my steps: MailBox ...
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How to make autoarchive in outlook 2016 for more mailers

So basically i have multiple e-mail addresses, I want to make an archive for each of them on a different path, is possible to make it or they need to be on one folder on auto-archive?
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Archiving Entire Email Account with Thunderbird/Outlook

Can somebody recommend an elegant email archiving solution per below? I have a very large dormant email account I need to archive. Right now it is sitting as an unused account in my T-bird but it ...
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How does an Office365 user apply a retention tag rule to their mailbox?

I have no experience with Exchange, so please interpret my question as reflecting this. I've just migrated two email accounts to Office365, and purchased the Archiving for Exchange Online add-on. ...
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How to setup auto archiving on Outlook with multiple email accounts to multiple archives?

Currently this is about Outlook 2010 but I am willing to update Outlook if this is easier in a newer version. I have multiple PCs which receive multiple email accounts in Outlook. I like to have ...
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How do I replicate Gmail's archive behavior in Microsoft Outlook 2013?

I have some emails in Outlook which I want to remove from my Inbox without deleting. In Gmail, there's a single dedicated button for archiving messages: In Outlook, Microsoft's official instructions ...
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What purpose does the Outlook "Archive" folder serve for accounts managed only via web browsers?

According to the official Microsoft Support Page, the archive feature is primarily used to split Outlook data into 2 seperate .pst files to optimise the perfomance of the Outlook desktop program. But ...
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Outlook 2016 has a "Archive" button which moves an email to a specific folder. Is there a keyboard shortcut for that action?

Word lets you customize keyboard shortcuts from inside the Customize Ribbon preference pane. Outlook seems to lack this feature, but I'm admittedly not an Outlook guru. Is there a way that I can ...
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Office365/Outlook 2016 In-Place Archiving Problems

I have been evaluating Office 365 for several months and have been impressed for the most part (especially with Azure AD integration). I have a few nagging issues, but the one that nobody at ...
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O365 archiving per project

is there any way to use one of the archiving features in office (personal archive, legal hold, ...) to achieve project archiving. The idea is that users can choose themselves to archive a mail. This ...
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