 David says, I'm looking for some experienced feedback. We have lots of clients who have Office 365 E3s, which as you may be aware, provides 100 gigabytes of mailbox and unlimited archives. This works well for those users who just don't want to do anything like delete old mail. We've now come across situations where some of the users in an org are reaching their 100 gig archive mailbox and the plan is to enable the auto expanding archive mailbox feature that then will allow them to grow to a stupid, this is his words, to a stupid 1.5 terabytes each. Checking out the service description and other posts, it all looks logical and easy to set up and turn on, but in practice, has anyone got any views on why I shouldn't turn it on? No matter what I say, the client is not going to delete their mail. They're not gonna house keep. Any hands on experience would be great before I suggest something else, albeit I don't have anything to actually offer. Oh man, I gotta tell you, you're not solving the problem, okay? You have bigger problems. You're giving the user free needles. You really are. Think about this, you know? I mean, I understand one of his last statements was around, no matter what I say to the client, they're not gonna delete their emails. Yeah, I don't think you're saying the right things to the client because literally it's garbage. I mean, it doesn't need to be there, number one. And if you do have it, you have legal hold, right? You have all these other features that you can use if you have to have something for seven years or something like that. But otherwise, you know, there's really no reason for it. 1.5 terabyte, I mean, come on. That's like, you know, if you're gonna, if you're actually gonna dump that mailbox, what are you gonna do with all that? You gonna have a PSD file that's 1.5 terabyte? How are you gonna, I mean, let's think about the problem in a bigger picture, not just, hey, these people are saying no to deleting their stuff. So I'm just gonna give them more disk space. I mean, remember the old days, they'd be like, just throw disk at it. Just so, you know, they don't wanna do anything, they don't wanna solve any problems. Just go ahead and throw disk at it, you know, throw hardware at it, and it'll all be better, you know? It's kind of like, you know, taking aspirin for a pain, you're just covering the pain. You're not eliminating the pain, you're just covering it. And in this case, you're covering the pain of doing stupid things with email, like keeping stuff forever and never archiving anything. Well, there's, going in and enforcing some kind of a classification system, forcing them to classify their content in email to add labels to it, and then having life cycle parameters that you enforce across the organization. Let people know well in advance, give them six months. Say, hey, in six months time, anything that's not marked as important, classified, whatever it is, you know, will then get archived, it'll go into this process, and then it'll be gone. And so that forces people to go through and classify their content because maybe there's some reason why they need that. But just to not have the life cycle management in place around a email archives, you're setting yourself up for tremendous pain in the future. Especially with having it up in 365 because you need to retrieve that. And when you do that, when you do that retrieval, that can be incredibly painful for the large files, right? Because it's not just like you have the server sitting right next to you, you have the disk local, that's not how all this works. So it's the situation. Well, it's the cloud, Mike, so it's all around us. Yeah, yeah, that's everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think all of that, the main thing is you gotta make sure that what's in it for the person, you're trying to convince them to get rid of this old mail, right? First of all, you're opening up your company up to liability for stuff that's hanging around that shouldn't be there anymore. So you have- Which is why you want the policies in place, right? Exactly, why you have a stamp. You have ticket stamps and you have to enforce it. And but there are other options, like they have the archive and you can move it to the archive. I'd put a couple of links in the resource sheet for creating search folders that'll go look for large mail and old mail and you're like, tell me everything that's over seven years old and it doesn't move it from its home, it just searches all of your folders. I have this woman that had over 90,000 emails and she's like, I can't even delete them because when you go to delete them, it creates a little quasi copy to move it to delete and it was sort of full. She couldn't even delete stuff. So we had to move things into a PST and then delete them. But it's like, why do you need 90,000 emails? And she goes, it takes forever for it to search. I'm like, really? Really? Yes. Think about it. Well, and she probably had offline cache mode enabled too. So everything was getting moved down into a cache on her local machine. So Outlook was just kind of like freaking out, trying to figure out, trying to index this thing and figure out, hey, how am I gonna manage this? Because Outlook actually has to manage it. It has to index it. It has to, if you want to do a search, I know that you're causing yourself more pain than necessary. Absolutely. And so by getting rid of the old stuff, you can speed up your search. So that's what's in it for them, fix their problem. And then the other thing, I use OneNote to archive my emails. So I do that for a couple of reasons. I have a project that I'm working on. Maybe I have a folder in my Outlook that has all of those project emails. I can take that whole folder and in one fell swoop say send it to OneNote and it's more searchable in OneNote than it actually is in Outlook because it searches even the attachments that are in there. It takes the attachments with it. Then I can close that notebook, put it on a shelf in whatever my SharePoint site or wherever, and I can go look at it if I need it. So it's out of the way. And I love that the attachments are searchable. So to get it out of my inbox, make my searches faster and Outlook and more robust if you put it in OneDrive. So I put links for both of those in the resource sheet for you. That's my two cents. A little passionate about it because 90,000 emails, really? What? Why? Like you with the 1.5 terabyte. Why? Yeah, crazy.