Outlook Email Archiving (2024)

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Exchange Online Archiving offers users advanced archiving capabilities with the archive mailbox feature. An archive mailbox is a specialized mailbox that appears alongside the users’ primary mailbox folders in Outlook or Outlook Web App.

Users can access the archive in the same way that they access their primary mailboxes. In addition, they can search both their archives and primary mailboxes.

These folders are searchable just like regular emails and the archive is available whenever you are connected to the Internet through Outlook for Windows and Outlook Web App.

• All email newer than 2 years is available in your main folders
• All email older than 2 years is available in the Archive folders

Get Familiar with your Archive

Try out the steps below to get familiar with your archive.

1. Search or Browse an Archive Folder
   Searching or browsing an archive folder is exactly the same as a regular folder! Select a folder in your Archive and review messages or try to search for an old message.
2. Search All Mail
   To search All Mail from the search bar, make sure you select “All Mailboxes” to the left of the search bar, instead of the default “Current Mailbox”
3. Webmail
   Your archived email appears also appears in Outlook Web App. Visit https://email.law.upenn.edu from any web browser to try it out.

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