Managing archive mailboxes
In Exchange 2010, a new personal storage concept was introduced, which still remains in Exchange 2013, called an archive mailbox. The idea is that you can give one or more users a secondary mailbox that can be accessed from anywhere, just like their regular mailbox, and it can be used to store older mailbox data thus, eliminating the need for a PST file. The benefit of this is that the archive mailboxes can now be located on a database separate from the primary mailbox, allowing administrators to put low-priority, archived mailbox data on an inexpensive lower tier of storage. In this chapter, we'll take a look at how you can manage archive mailboxes for your users through the Exchange Management Shell.
How to do it...
To create an archive mailbox for an existing mailbox, use the Enable-Mailbox cmdlet, as shown in the following command:
Enable-Mailbox –Identity administrator -Archive
How it works...
When you create an archive mailbox for a user, they can...
