1. Navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.
   
   
2. Click New > User mailbox.
   
   
3. On the New user mailbox page, in the Alias box, type an alias for the user.
   
   

   Note:
   If you leave this box blank, the value you type in the User logon name box is used for the alias.

4. Select one of the following options:
   
   
   • Existing user   Click this button and then click Browse to open the Select User – Entire Forest dialog box. This dialog box displays a list of Active Directory user accounts in the forest that aren't mail-enabled or don't have Exchange mailboxes. Select the user account you want to mail-enable, and then click OK. If you select this option, you don’t have to provide user account information because this information already exists in Active Directory.
     
     
   • New user   Click this button to create a new user account in Active Directory and create a mailbox for the user. If you select this option, you'll have to provide the required user account information.
     
     

   Note:
   The Active Directory account that is associated with user mailboxes must reside in the same forest as the Exchange server. To create a mailbox for a user account that resides in a trusted forest, you have to create a linked mailbox. For details, see Manage Linked Mailboxes.

5. Click More options to configure the following settings.
   
   
   • Mailbox database   Click Browse to select a mailbox database in which to store the mailbox. If you don’t select a database, Exchange will automatically assign one.
     
     
   • Archive   Select this check box to create an archive mailbox for the mailbox. If you create an archive mailbox, mailbox items will be moved automatically from the primary mailbox to the archive, based on the default retention policy settings or those you define.
     
     Click Browse to select a database that resides in the local forest to store the archive mailbox.
     
     To learn more, see In-Place Archiving.
     
     
   • Address book policy   Use this list to select an address book policy (ABP) for the mailbox. ABPs contain a global address list (GAL), an offline address book (OAB), a room list, and a set of address lists. When assigned to mailbox users, an ABP provides them with access to a customized GAL in Outlook and Outlook Web App. To learn more, see Address Book Policies.
     
     
6. When you're finished, click Save to create the mailbox.
   
   

This example creates the user Chris Ashton in Active Directory, creates the mailbox on mailbox database DB01, and enables an archive. The password must be reset at the next logon. To set the initial value of the password, this example creates a variable ($password), prompts you to enter a password, and assigns that password to the variable as a SecureString object.

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$password = Read-Host "Enter password" -AsSecureString New-Mailbox -UserPrincipalName chris@contoso.com -Alias chris -Archive -Database "DB01" -Name ChrisAshton -OrganizationalUnit Users -Password $password -FirstName Chris -LastName Ashton -DisplayName "Chris Ashton"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see New-Mailbox.

To verify that you’ve successfully created a user mailbox with an on-premises archive, do one of the following:

• In the EAC, navigate to Recipients  > Mailboxes, and then select the new user mailbox from the list. In the details pane, under In-Place Archive, confirm that it is set to Enabled. Click View details to view archive properties, including archive status and the mailbox database in which it is created.
  
  
• In the Shell, run the following command to display information about the new user mailbox and archive.
  
  

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  Get-Mailbox <Name> | FL Name,RecipientTypeDetails,PrimarySmtpAddress,*Archive*

• In the Shell, use the Test-ArchiveConnectivity cmdlet to test connectivity to the archive. For an example of how to test archive connectivity, see the Examples section in Test-ArchiveConnectivity.
  
  

1. Navigate to Recipients  > Mailboxes.
   
   
2. Select a mailbox.
   
   
3. In the details pane, under In-Place Archive, click Enable
   
   

   Tip:
   You can also bulk-enable archives by selecting multiple mailboxes (use the Shift or Ctrl keys). After selecting multiple mailboxes, in the details pane, click More options. Then, under Archive click Enable.

4. On the Create in-place archive page, click OK to have Exchange automatically select a mailbox database for the archive or click Browse to specify one.
   
   

This example enables the archive for Tony Smith's mailbox.

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Enable-Mailbox "Tony Smith" -Archive

This example retrieves mailboxes in database DB01 that don’t have an on-premises or cloud-based archive enabled and don’t have a name starting with DiscoverySearchMailbox. It pipes the result to the Enable-Mailbox cmdlet to enable the archive for all mailboxes on mailbox database DB01.

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Get-Mailbox -Database DB01 -Filter {ArchiveGuid -Eq $null -AND ArchiveDomain -eq $null -AND Name -NotLike "DiscoverySearchMailbox*"} | Enable-Mailbox -Archive

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Enable-Mailbox and Get-Mailbox.

To verify that you’ve successfully enabled an on-premises archive for an existing mailbox, do one of the following:

• In the EAC, navigate to Recipients  > Mailboxes, and then select the mailbox from the list. In the details pane, under In-Place Archive, confirm that it is set to Enabled. Click View details to view archive properties, including archive status and the mailbox database in which it is created.
  
  
• In the Shell, run the following command to display information about the new archive.
  
  

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  Get-Mailbox <Name> | FL Name,*Archive*

• In the Shell, use the Test-ArchiveConnectivity cmdlet to test connectivity to the archive. For an example of how to test archive connectivity, see Examples in Test-ArchiveConnectivity.
  
  

1. Navigate to Recipients  > Mailboxes.
   
   
2. Select a mailbox.
   
   
3. In the details pane, under In-Place Archive, click Disable.
   
   

   Tip:
   You can also bulk-disable archives by selecting multiple mailboxes (use the Shift or Ctrl keys). After selecting multiple mailboxes, in the details pane, click More options. Then, under Archive click Disable.

This example disables the archive for Chris Ashton's mailbox. It doesn't disable the mailbox.

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Disable-Mailbox -Identity "Chris Ashton" -Archive

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Disable-Mailbox.

To verify that you have successfully disabled an archive, do the following:

• In the EAC, select the mailbox. Then, in the details pane check its archive status under In-Place Archive.
  
  
• In the Shell, run the following command to check the archive properties for the mailbox user.
  
  

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  Get-Mailbox -Identity "Chris Ashton" | Format-List *Archive*

  If the archive is disabled, the following values are returned for archive-related properties.
  
  

  Property	Value
  ArchiveDatabase (for on-premises archives)	<blank>
  ArchiveState	None
  DisabledArchiveDatabase (for on-premises archives)	<name of mailbox database>
  DisabledArchiveGuid	<guid of disabled archive>

1. If you don't know the name of the archive, you can view it in the Shell by running the following command. This example retrieves the mailbox database DB01, pipes it to the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet to retrieve mailbox statistics for all mailboxes on the database, and then uses the Where-Object cmdlet to filter the results and retrieve a list of disconnected archives. The command displays additional information about each archive such as the GUID and item count.
   
   

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   Get-MailboxDatabase "DB01" | Get-MailboxStatistics | Where {($_.DisconnectDate -ne $null) -and ($_.IsArchiveMailbox -eq $true)} Format-List

2. Connect the archive to the primary mailbox. This example connects Chris Ashton's archive to Chris Ashton's primary mailbox and uses the GUID as the archive's identity.
   
   

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   Connect-Mailbox -Identity "8734c04e-981e-4ccf-a547-1c1ac7ebf3e2" -Archive -User "Chris Ashton" -Database "DB01"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see the following topics:

• Get-MailboxDatabase
  
  
• Get-MailboxStatistics
  
  
• Connect-Mailbox
  
  

To verify that you have successfully connected a disconnected archive to a mailbox user, run the following Shell command to retrieve the mailbox user’s archive properties and verify the values returned for the ArchiveGuid and ArchiveDatabase properties.:

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Get-Mailbox -Identity "Chris Ashton" | Format-List *Archive*