Hi DaStivi,
Currently all I have is all the information Microsoft has released in the last couple of years around this, and experience dealing with Microsoft. Basically as many will know they advised on the OneDrive archiving I think based on my memory 18-24 months ago, below is the current article I can find on this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/share ... e-accounts
I also honestly haven't' concerned myself with the details too much as I have a M365 lead here who is dealing with understanding it, I am just helping internally here to push our new best practices around this, eg clients sign up for archiving or we need to delete them.
I haven't found specific info from Microsoft stating the process especially the blocking of access, but I am not surprised they would go about it that way. Then if you want it you turn on archiving or delete them.
As for when Microsoft will start deleting them, no idea, we cannot wrap our heads around this one as the articles and documentation don't match what we are seeing currently, so I know our M365 lead is working directly with Microsoft to understand this better.
But it is very clear to my M365 lead and myself that for our customers having this issue, we need to change user decom processes or have clients sign up to archiving. Regardless there is a very big learning curve for us as an MSP and the clients in regards to what they can do and how that effects user decoms.
Currently all I have is all the information Microsoft has released in the last couple of years around this, and experience dealing with Microsoft. Basically as many will know they advised on the OneDrive archiving I think based on my memory 18-24 months ago, below is the current article I can find on this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/share ... e-accounts
I also honestly haven't' concerned myself with the details too much as I have a M365 lead here who is dealing with understanding it, I am just helping internally here to push our new best practices around this, eg clients sign up for archiving or we need to delete them.
I haven't found specific info from Microsoft stating the process especially the blocking of access, but I am not surprised they would go about it that way. Then if you want it you turn on archiving or delete them.
As for when Microsoft will start deleting them, no idea, we cannot wrap our heads around this one as the articles and documentation don't match what we are seeing currently, so I know our M365 lead is working directly with Microsoft to understand this better.
But it is very clear to my M365 lead and myself that for our customers having this issue, we need to change user decom processes or have clients sign up to archiving. Regardless there is a very big learning curve for us as an MSP and the clients in regards to what they can do and how that effects user decoms.
Statistics: Posted by richardbradley — May 12, 2026 2:33 am
