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Export to PDFYour renewal experience may vary depending on your IT administrator’s configurations:
New landing page – If you see intake questions at the bottom of the page, you are on the new landing page.
When there are no available intake questions, the Start renewal button is displayed in the lower-right corner of the page.
Classic landing page – If you see the Renew Overview page with the Start renewal button displayed in the upper-right corner, you are on the classic landing page.
Contacts and users labeled as “Inactive” are those who have either been blocked from signing in or deleted from Microsoft 365.
Before starting the renewal process, you may see one or both of the following intake questions based on your IT administrator’s configurations:
Yes – You will proceed to the next intake question, or the renewal process will begin.
No – The I am not responsible for this task window appears and you may see one of the following contents based on your IT administrator’s configuration.
If your organization allows you to reassign or skip the task:
To reassign the task, choose I’m not the correct renewalassignee, but I know who is responsible for this renewal and specify the new assignee.
To skip the task, choose I'm not the correct renewalassignee, and I don't know who is responsible for this renewal.
Click OK to proceed.
If your IT administrator only allows you to skip the task, click OK in the confirmation window to skip the task.
If your IT administrator only allows you to reassign the task, specify the new assignee and click OK.
Cancel – This will exit the task without changes.
Yes – The renewal process will begin.
No – In the Delete this shared mailbox window, click Delete if you no longer require the shared mailbox.
Cancel – This will exit the task without changes.
While answering the intake questions, you can view the following shared mailbox information:
Primary contact
Secondary contact (if any)
Members
In the upper-right corner of the page, you can:
Click View details to see additional shared mailbox details in the View details panel.
Click View shared mailbox to open the shared mailbox in a new tab.
Before starting the shared mailbox renewal process, you can:
View Shared Mailbox Details – You can click View details below the shared mailbox name and view the shared mailbox’s detailed information in the View details panel.
Enable Reminder Later – Click Remind me later if you don’t want to renew the shared mailbox right now and want to enable a reminder. Then, the Reminder email window appears asking for your confirmation. Click OK, and a renewal task reminder email will be sent to you in 24 hours.
Confirm Details – You may reassign the renewal task if you are no longer responsible for the shared mailbox or request the shared mailbox to be deleted if you no longer need it. Based on your IT administrator’s configuration, you may see one or more of the following links below the page:
Delete this shared mailbox – Click this link if you want to delete this shared mailbox.
I am not responsible for this task – You may see one of the following contents based on your IT administrator’s configuration.
If your organization allows you to reassign and skip the task, choose Reassign task to and specify the assignee to reassign the task, or choose I'm not the correct renewal assignee, and I don't know who is responsible for this renewal to skip the task.
If your IT administrator only allows you to skip the task, click OK in the confirmation window to skip the task.
Reassign this task – Click this link, specify a new assignee, and click OK to reassign this task.
View Member Statistics – You can view the number of members of the shared mailbox in the Member statistics area.
To start the renewal process, click Start renewal.