For more information about creating a user mailbox, see Create User Mailboxes. On the New user mailbox page, create a mailbox for a new or existing user. In the EAC in your on-premises organization, go to Recipients > Mailboxes.Ĭlick New > User mailbox or Office 365 mailbox depending on where you want to create the mailbox. Use the EAC to create a cloud-based archive mailbox for a new user Perform these steps in the Exchange admin center or Exchange Management Shell in your on-premises Exchange organization and in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Use one of the following procedures to enable a cloud-based archive mailbox for an on-premises primary mailbox or an online mailbox. Step 1: Enable a cloud-based archive mailbox for a primary on-premises mailbox or an online mailbox
By default, directory synchronization runs once every 30 minutes. This is because the cloud-base archive mailbox is created by the process of directory synchronization, where your on-premises Active Directory is synchronized with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) in Microsoft 365 or Office 365.
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The steps for assigning a license are included in the procedures in Step 1.Īfter you enable the cloud-based archive mailbox in Step 1, it might take up to 30 minutes for the cloud-based archive mailbox to be provisioned. For more information about the different options, see Exchange Online Archiving plans. The user account must be assigned an Exchange Online Archiving license. The user with the on-premises primary mailbox must have a user account in your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization. In an Exchange hybrid deployment, you can configure an on-premises primary mailbox or an online mailbox with a cloud-based archive mailbox in Exchange Online.