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archving emails exchange 2003

Hi all,

we have an sbs 2003 server running exchange 2003. Now the mailboxes here are growing quite large now with about 5 years worh of emails.

Now we are elooking to archive the emais away to free space up on the boxes.

My idea was to simply create <user>_archive<year> mailboxes for each user and simply move all the emails across into here.

the user could then still access if need be.

However this seems like alot of work as there are now around 10 employees.

Is there a better way to do this?

what would the standard protocol for this be please
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why dont you archive them and create public folders mail enabled and save the user archive data to it?
use a third party, keep in mind that 2003 maximum supported mailbox is 2 GB
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>>maximum supported mailbox is 2 GB
Sorry busbar, this isn't true, the maximum supported mailbox when configuring using the GUI interface with a limit is 2GB, if you set it to unlimited then it will support more than a 2GB mailbox.  You can also increase the limited size past 2GB using ADSIEdit.
The problem with Outlook Archiving is it wants to save the archive to the C: Drive of the Users Computer to a file called archive.pst.

The user gets access the the Archive file from their Outlook.
However if the machine crashes and you you the data on it, they lose their archive.pst file.

What we do is we archive everybodies mailbox every day using a product called Backup Assist.
This keeps a copy of everybodys mailbox with history on the server. So if the users pc breaks and they lose their archive, you can always grab it from the server.

Fantastic and very easy to use, inexpensive product.
www.backupassist.com
attache it using sharepoint!!!!
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ok, thanks for all the info

rgarding the backup assist this costs £139.00 what is the cost to upgrade the exchange to 2011??
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sorry meant 2010.
You would upgrade to SBs2011 which would be a new server and OEM license (£400 ish) but then you wil be fully supported with the latest version of SBS