Enable-Archive: Mailbox x cannot be Archive enabled with Managed Folders Policy

When I tried to enable archiving for a specific user in Exchange 2010, the following error occurred:

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Microsoft Exchange Error
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Action ‘Enable Archive…’ could not be performed on object ‘Petrelli, Peter’.

Petrelli, Peter Failed
Error:
Mailbox ‘Peter.Petrelli’ cannot be Archive enabled with Managed Folders Policy. Archives are supported only with Retention Policy.

This error will mostly show up when you had a Managed Folder Policy enabled in Exchange 2007, and you then migrated to Exchange 2010. To verify that you have a Managed Folder policy enabled on the mailbox, execute the following Powershell command on your Exchange 2010 server:

get-mailbox –id user | Select-Object Name, ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy

The ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy column shows you the policy applied to the mailbox.
To remove the policy, execute the following Powershell command:

set-mailbox –id user –ManagedFolderMailboxPolicy $null

You can now enable archiving on the mailbox:

enable-mailbox –id user –ArchiveDatabase archivedatabasename

If you want a policy on the mailbox, that, for example, moves all items older than 30 days to the archive, search Google for “retention policies Exchange 2010

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