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Where is my user's mailbox data stored?

I need to know where all my user's Exchange mailbox data is stored. Is it stored on the Exchange server itself, or is it stored in PST files on Outlook on the local workstation? or both perhaps? Is there a way to tell, and what is the difference?

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Jez

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pauljnye

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I see. So I have just been asked to get all the user PST files and put them in one folder on my server. Can I globally extract all the mailbox data for all users into PST files like that?

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Jez

Depends what you mean by globally, you could have all users configured this way, but would be a manual process. What are you actually trying to do? If it is for a paranoid user who wants all their email backed up of sorts you could have a rule setup on the client to make a copy in a local PST file.

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pauljnye

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MarkMichael, I am migrating my users from Exchange to Google Apps. (http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html) Google apps is free for education & non-profits
It is possible that I can migrate all the email/contacts/calendar over to Google apps in one go provided I can get all the PST files together in one folder.
Thanks also for clarifying the point about the .edb files.
Paul

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There appears to be a ot of free migration apps on the net and various how-tos

http://anchorite.org/blog/2007/08/18/exchange-2003-to-google-apps-migration-howto/
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=61369