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Is there a way to set the options on auto archiving emails via a GPO? <br />
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Yes, I know PSTs are horribly evil and cause everything from nuclear war to halitosis, but I have a very limited budget and I am the entire IT department. I would like to do an archiving solution but all I have seen are expensive and hard / time consuming to implement. <br />
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I am running Exchange 2003 Server 2003, all the other servers are Server 2003, including the DC. Clients machines are running Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007, I am in the middle of upgrading email software, usually when machines get upgraded. Auto Archive doesn't seem to work consistently in OL 2003 even when set locally. <br />
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I want to set it so that OL auto archives anything over 120 days and anything over 1 MB. How do I do that? 
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Is there a way to set the options on auto archiving emails via a GPO? 

Yes, I know PSTs are horribly evil and cause everything from nuclear war to halitosis, but I have a very limited budget and I am the entire IT department. I would like to do an archiving solution but all I have seen are expensive and hard / time consuming to implement. 

I am running Exchange 2003 Server 2003, all the other servers are Server 2003, including the DC. Clients machines are running Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007, I am in the middle of upgrading email software, usually when machines get upgraded. Auto Archive doesn't seem to work consistently in OL 2003 even when set locally. 

I want to set it so that OL auto archives anything over 120 days and anything over 1 MB. How do I do that? 

Setting auto archive options in GPO

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note-taker, journal, and web browser.

Outlook

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).