https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/need-help-exporting-office-365-to-pst-for-archive-purposes/m-p/499420#M40865 <P>Our compliance team wants us to archive mailboxes for employees who've left the company over the past year — about 35 mailboxes total, all needs to go to PST for long-term storage. Never done this at this scale before, so looking for advice before I mess something up.<BR /><BR /><STRONG>A few concerns I have:</STRONG></P><UL><LI>Most of these accounts are already disabled or deleted, so I'm not sure the native Microsoft tools will even work<BR />I don't want to babysit 35 individual exports manually</LI><LI>Archive means I need this to actually be complete and verifiable later, not just "probably fine"<BR />We don't have E5 licensing across the board, so I'm not sure eDiscovery is even an option for all these mailboxes<P>From what I've read so far, eDiscovery Content Search can work for archiving but gets complicated fast with disabled accounts and licensing requirements. A few people in another thread mentioned dedicated export software handles this better since it's built for bulk jobs and doesn't care whether the account is active or not.</P><P>Was looking at this <STRONG>DRS Softech Office 365 to PST export tool</STRONG> since it seems to handle exactly this — bulk export including inactive accounts, with reporting so I can confirm everything actually made it into the PST files.</P></LI></UL> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:59:08 GMT WilliamsWelsh 2026-07-11T09:59:08Z https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/need-help-exporting-office-365-to-pst-for-archive-purposes/m-p/499420#M40865 <P>Our compliance team wants us to archive mailboxes for employees who've left the company over the past year — about 35 mailboxes total, all needs to go to PST for long-term storage. Never done this at this scale before, so looking for advice before I mess something up.<BR /><BR /><STRONG>A few concerns I have:</STRONG></P><UL><LI>Most of these accounts are already disabled or deleted, so I'm not sure the native Microsoft tools will even work<BR />I don't want to babysit 35 individual exports manually</LI><LI>Archive means I need this to actually be complete and verifiable later, not just "probably fine"<BR />We don't have E5 licensing across the board, so I'm not sure eDiscovery is even an option for all these mailboxes<P>From what I've read so far, eDiscovery Content Search can work for archiving but gets complicated fast with disabled accounts and licensing requirements. A few people in another thread mentioned dedicated export software handles this better since it's built for bulk jobs and doesn't care whether the account is active or not.</P><P>Was looking at this <STRONG>DRS Softech Office 365 to PST export tool</STRONG> since it seems to handle exactly this — bulk export including inactive accounts, with reporting so I can confirm everything actually made it into the PST files.</P></LI></UL> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:59:08 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-forum/need-help-exporting-office-365-to-pst-for-archive-purposes/m-p/499420#M40865 WilliamsWelsh 2026-07-11T09:59:08Z