Disregard this. I hadn't realized that when you disable a mailbox that also has an archive (Disable-Mailbox username), it teats the Archive mailbox to its own disabled object and I can can just run the New-MailboxRestoreRequest command on that disabled Archive object.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:40 AM, ccollins9 <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking to see if anyone might have a solution to this > > Let me start by saying, my goal is NOT to export an Online Archive Mailbox > as a PST. Our desire is to block PST by policy, without exception > > Currently, when a user leaves we export their mailbox to PST and map that > file to their manager's Outlook client > > I'm working on a script that will disable the user's mailbox, create a new > shared mailbox, then use New-MailboxRestoreRequest to copy all the email to > the newly created shared mailbox. This works beautifully for the standard > mailbox of the old user, but there are no command switches for an old > user's Online Archive. There is the -TargetIsArchive switch, but all that > will do is take the old user's standard mailbox and restore it to the > shared mailbox's Archive mailbox, which isn't our desire. > > So obviously we are trying to keep the whole process online in Exchange > and not use PSTs. We also know that we can connect the old mailbox to the > new shared mailbox, but this still doesn't resolve the manager "mapping" > the mailbox in Outlook and being able to see the old users Archive mailbox. > In order for them to see the Archive mailbox they would need to create a > new Outlook profile and that is also not desired. > > Thanks! >
