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Exchange - Email Archiving

I am looking for a solution that will allow me to archive emails in exchange.

My ultimate goal is to archive these emails so that my users can view them outside of exchange so that I can decrease my database size. I have GFI Mail archiver and would like to implement it but it uses the journaling feature. Doesnt the journaling feature make a copy of the messages for archiving thus increasing my database size.

What solutions are available other than exmerge for archining and easy viewing access?

Thanks as always

overdrive79

Check out Symantec Enterprise Vault:

http://www.symantec.com/business/enterprise-vault

It also integrates with IM Manager so you can archive email AND IM's

Paul Solovyovsky

Enterprise Vault will also compress the emails and allow you to use Single Instance so that if you journal and archive it will only keep a single copy and decrease your storage needs

zyanj

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...do archiving and journaling go hand in hand.

Am I correct in assuming that to enable archiving I have to enable journalingt which will dramatically increase my dB size?????

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overdrive79

While you didn't state which version of Exchange you are running, It is also important to note that Journaling has been greatly improved in Exchange 2007. Read the article at the below link.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.12.journaling.aspx

Paul Solovyovsky

Essentiall in Exchange 2007 you get to pick and choose which mailboxes you may journal. In Exchange 2000/2003 it is per Mailbox Store. Makes it a lot easier to do granular journaling such as management only or user only.

zyanj

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I am using exchange server 2003.

does journaling increase the exchange dB size? Again I have GFI Mail archiver and have yet to implement it. It states that I should enable journaling but at the same time will decrease my db storage needs?

Paul Solovyovsky

If it archives it off the Exchange server than it should not increases the database size. If the journaling is pointing to a mailbox that GFI sweeps out it will not increase the Exchange DB size. Once you've archived older emails you'll need to do an offline defrag to compact all the white space.