Get Messages From Archived Mailbox aka In-Place Archive Using Graph API

Exchange Server has a really nice feature called In-Place Archiving it helps you regain control of your organization's messaging data by eliminating the need for personal store (.pst) files and allowing users to store messages in an archive mailbox. (c) MS

As well, Microsoft provides you with the ability to query data from Office 365 by using Graph API

How can you get messages from the archived mailbox using Graph API?

Microsft has a list (or to be more correct enumeration) of a so-called "Well Known Folder Name". You can use items from this list in the Graph API queries instead of folder id. To access the root of the archived mailbox (aka In-Place Archive) you should use

ArchiveMsgFolderRoot

You can use it to get information about your archived mailbox:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/ArchiveMsgFolderRoot/

Or someone's:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<id>/mailFolders/ArchiveMsgFolderRoot/

Note: replace <id> with the id of a user (use can get it via GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/).

To get the list of folders inside the In-Place Archive mailbox, use the following command:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<id>/mailFolders/ArchiveMsgFolderRoot/childFolders

And to get messages from the Inbox folder in the In-Place Archive mailbox you can use the following query:

https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/<id>/mailFolders/ArchiveMsgFolderRoot/childFolders/Inbox/messages

Note: You can also use Inbox from the WellKnownFolderName enum instead of an id.

Graph API is a powerful REST API with a lot of features to query data from Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility and Security.

md javed

2020-03-05 19:28:08

Is this tested, because in many forum and stackoverflow, I read that its not possible yet. Thanks.

ivan

2020-03-05 22:50:02

Javed: Yes, it's tested and 100% possible

Inbaraj

2020-03-25 15:14:55

I have tried it . It's not returning in-place storage details.

David O

2020-03-28 14:36:02

I which it worked, but in my testing, it actually returns the messages in your main inbox, not the inbox in your online archive. Hope I'm doing something wrong, but it would be very useful.

Radim

2020-04-24 11:10:08

This used to work, but started failing recently (this week?) with:

404 ErrorInvalidMailboxItemId: Item Id doesn't belong to the current mailbox.

Despite no change in mailboxes or requests. Microsoft probably changed something on their side, and this solution no longer works.

Brij

2020-05-05 18:20:49

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/mailfolder?view=graph-rest-1.0
All Well-known folder name are documented on above article and it doesn't list ArchiveMsgFolderRoot so its not supported.

Also, as per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/mail-api-overview?view=graph-rest-1.0
The API does not support accessing in-place archive mailboxes, not on Exchange Online nor on Exchange Server

Max 4bis.nl

2020-05-20 17:18:29

Looks like microsoft blocked this api call

Thomas Hansen

2024-04-19 13:15:51

Anyone know if there is any other way to get items from the archive mailbox?