How Move Archive works

When you have submitted a number of Move Archive operations using the wizard, each move is then controlled by the Move Archive task. The Move Archive task is responsible for the actions that must take place as part of an archive move. For example, the Move Archive task copies the content from the source archive to the destination. The Move Archive task also manages the wait time that is necessary while other archiving operations take place. For example, the Move Archive task waits for the mailbox archiving task to point mailbox shortcuts to the items in the destination archive.

For each Move Archive operation, the Move Archive task:

When verification has completed successfully, the move operation is complete. If necessary, you can then delete the source archive.