Change the name of the Archive mailbox

Trying to figure out how to change the name shown in Outlook for the archive mailbox (see screenshot below). I found a property "ArchiveName" using the PowerShell get-mailbox cmdlet, changed that property to the desired value, but it's still not updated in Outlook. When I log into the user's mailbox using OWA, it does show the updated archive mailbox name.

May 27th, 2015 10:07am
Outlook gets that info from the autodiscover response, so make sure it's correctly reflected there. Run the Test E-Mail autoconfiguration wizard and look at the response, or simply remove the cached autodiscover.xml and restart Outlook.
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May 27th, 2015 4:51pm
Outlook gets that info from the autodiscover response, so make sure it's correctly reflected there. Run the Test E-Mail autoconfiguration wizard and look at the response, or simply remove the cached autodiscover.xml and restart Outlook.
May 27th, 2015 8:50pm
Outlook gets that info from the autodiscover response, so make sure it's correctly reflected there. Run the Test E-Mail autoconfiguration wizard and look at the response, or simply remove the cached autodiscover.xml and restart Outlook.
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May 27th, 2015 8:50pm
Thanks, you mentioned removing the cached autodiscover.xml file, where can I find that file?
June 11th, 2015 4:10pm
Should be in C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook. But do run the Test E-Mail autoconfiguration wizard locally to make sure it's actually correctly reflected there.
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June 11th, 2015 4:24pm

Thanks, I checked there as well as in %APPDATA% but there are no autodiscover.xml files there. There are several xml files in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook, including one called Outlook.xml. But didn't see anything in that file containing the current name of my archive mailbox.

When you say run the Test E-mail autoconfiguration wizard, are you talking about the Remote Connectivity Analyzer website? I ran that, but the results don't reference any directory on my local machine.

June 11th, 2015 4:35pm
No, the one from Outlook. Hold the CTRL key, right-click on Outlook's icon in the tray, select Test E-Mail autoconfiguration. Enter username/password, clear the two GuessSmart checkboxes and run the test, then check the output for the Archive name.
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June 11th, 2015 4:43pm

Ha...did that, but still no mention of an autodiscover.xml file on my local machine.

I just looked again in the local appdata folder, and I do see it now. Was missing it because it's named slightly different (<mailbox id> - autodiscover.xml). I see in the file that it has my new archive mailbox name, but removing the file didn't do anything - I restarted Outlook, it recreated the autodiscover file, but the old archive name still shows in Outlook. I also tried deleting my .ost file, but still no luck - old archive mailbox name still shows in Outlook.

June 11th, 2015 5:09pm

I would think disabling and enabling the archive would do that. Ensure you have mailbox deletion set on the archiveDB and then disable the archive.

to re-enable:

Enable-mailbox -identity <alias of user> -ArchiveGUID <archiveMailboxGuid> -ArchiveDatabase <archiveDB> -Archive -ArchiveName <Callitwhatyouwant>

 
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June 11th, 2015 5:27pm

Ha...did that, but still no mention of an autodiscover.xml file on my local machine.

I just looked again in the local appdata folder, and I do see it now. Was missing it because it's named slightly different (<mailbox id> - autodiscover.xml). I see in the file that it has my new archive mailbox name, but removing the file didn't do anything - I restarted Outlook, it recreated the autodiscover file, but the old archive name still shows in Outlook. I also tried deleting my .ost file, but still no luck - old archive mailbox name still shows in Outl

June 12th, 2015 2:52am
Yes, the autodiscover.xml does contain the correct archive name. Just not showing correctly in Outlook (still shows old/default name).
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June 12th, 2015 9:54am
So it's definitely on the client side. Create a new Outlook profile, it should fix it.
June 12th, 2015 1:51pm

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