Hi..

I am planning to deploy exchange 2013 In-Place archive...

Is there any possibility to move items of  Recoverable Item Folder of primary mailbox to archive mailbox, so that i can reduce the size of primary mailbox.

Advance thanks..

 

Hi Anu,

Thank you for your question.

The recoverable items folder has its own storage quota, it didnt affect the size of primary mailbox, so if we move items of recoverable item folder of primary mailbox to archive mailbox, it cannot reduce the size of primary mailbox.

We could refer to the following link:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee364755(v=exchg.150).aspx

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know. 

Best Regard,

Jim

Hi Anu,

Thank you for your question.

The recoverable items folder has its own storage quota, it didnt affect the size of primary mailbox, so if we move items of recoverable item folder of primary mailbox to archive mailbox, it cannot reduce the size of primary mailbox.

We could refer to the following link:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee364755(v=exchg.150).aspx

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know. 

Best Regard,

Jim

• Marked as answer by Anu Raja V 1 hour 30 minutes ago

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your information..

As you mentioned, it wont affect the user's mail box quota.

Anyhow, it will increase the size of primary mailbox database(pls consider archive mailbox is created on separate database and In-place Hold is enabled). So i was thinking that moving items of recoverable folder from primary mailbox database to archive database would help me to prevent considerable amount of size of high cost primary database storage.  

One more doubt on Recoverable Items Folder quota.

Are these configurable Recoverable Items warning quota (soft limit) of 20 gigabytes (GB) and a Recoverable Items quota (hard limit) of 30 GB applied to each mailbox users or a database ?

For example, a database contain 100 mail-box, if each user has limit of 30GB of Recoverable Items folder, the total size of Recoverable Items per database will be up to 3 TB. 

Whereas, if Recoverable Items quota is 30GB for a database, do all 100 users share this quota size? 

Best Regards,

Anu.  

• Edited by Anu Raja V Friday, January 30, 2015 10:34 AM

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your information..

As you mentioned, it wont affect the user's mail box quota.

Anyhow, it will increase the size of primary mailbox database(pls consider archive mailbox is created on separate database and In-place Hold is enabled). So i was thinking that moving items of recoverable folder from primary mailbox database to archive database would help me to prevent considerable amount of size of high cost primary database storage.  

One more doubt on Recoverable Items Folder quota.

Are these configurable Recoverable Items warning quota (soft limit) of 20 gigabytes (GB) and a Recoverable Items quota (hard limit) of 30 GB applied to each mailbox users or a database ?

For example, a database contain 100 mail-box, if each user has limit of 30GB of Recoverable Items folder, the total size of Recoverable Items per database will be up to 3 TB. 

Whereas, if Recoverable Items quota is 30GB for a database, do all 100 users share this quota size? 

Best Regards,

Anu.  

• Edited by Anu Raja V Friday, January 30, 2015 10:34 AM

If your goal is to move items from the primary mailbox towards the archive mailbox, then you can do that via EWS.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeamsgdev/archive/2012/04/27/powershell-script-to-move-items-from-one-folder-to-another-in-a-user-s-mailbox.aspx

In the remarks someone gave an answer what to change to move content from primary towards archive mailbox.

Hi Jim,

Thank you for your information..

As you mentioned, it wont affect the user's mail box quota.

Anyhow, it will increase the size of primary mailbox database(pls consider archive mailbox is created on separate database and In-place Hold is enabled). So i was thinking that moving items of recoverable folder from primary mailbox database to archive database would help me to prevent considerable amount of size of high cost primary database storage.  

One more doubt on Recoverable Items Folder quota.

Are these configurable Recoverable Items warning quota (soft limit) of 20 gigabytes (GB) and a Recoverable Items quota (hard limit) of 30 GB applied to each mailbox users or a database ?

For example, a database contain 100 mail-box, if each user has limit of 30GB of Recoverable Items folder, the total size of Recoverable Items per database will be up to 3 TB. 

Whereas, if Recoverable Items quota is 30GB for a database, do all 100 users share this quota size? 

Best Regards,

Anu.  

Hi Anu,

Thank you for your question.

Are these configurable Recoverable Items warning quota (soft limit) of 20 gigabytes (GB) and a Recoverable Items quota (hard limit) of 30 GB applied to each mailbox users or a database ?

A:The configurable Recoverable Items warning quota applied each mailbox user

Theoretically, when a database contain 100 mailboxes, if each user has limit of 30GB of Recoverable Items folder, the total size of Recoverable Items per database will be up to 3 TB.

However, a mailbox database is configured to retain deleted items for 14 days by default, the deleted items will be permanently deleted after 14 days, the space of hard disk will be freed. When the total size of Recoverable Items per database will be up to 3 TB, it means every user of 100  mailboxes delete items which is up to 30GB in 14 day.

If there are any questions regarding this issue, please be free to let me know. 

Best Regard,

Jim

• Edited by jim-xu 10 hours 0 minutes ago
• Marked as answer by Anu Raja V 1 hour 29 minutes ago

Hi D_Goossens,

Thanking for your reply...

Thank you Jim..