Force Exchange Online Archive to start email collection on Microsoft 365

when you enable Exchange online archiving for a user on Microsoft 365, it can take 24 hours or more to manage, starting and starting email to run it before the primary mailbox.

If you want this process to start immediately, connect Microsoft 365 to PowerShell and ask the Managed Folder Assistant to turn on.

Open the PowerShell or Windows PowerShell ISE by using Administrator mode

 

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

 

Import-PSSession $Session

 

Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity user@example.com

Then start waiting for 5 minutes or so and check progress by logging into OWA (Outlook Web App) and viewing the contents of the in-place archive mailbox in the left-hand sidebar or through the Exchange Admin Center. > Mailbox> Recipients> In-Place Archive> View Details.

For all users you have to run the below command on the PowerShell

$UserMailboxes = Get-Mailbox -Filter {(RecipientTypeDetails -eq ‘UserMailbox’)} $UserMailboxes | ForEach {Start-ManagedFolderAssistant $_.Identity}

 

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