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Exchange 2007 email archiving

Is there a feature built into exchange 2007 (when part of SBS 2008) that allows you to automatically archive all of the users mailboxes at predefined times? If not, what is the best solution? I have came across a program called GFI Mail archiver for exchange, is it any good?

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mkrh09

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I don't want any mail older than 4 months to reside in the mailbox to keep the size of the information store to a minimum. I have been manually going to each machine and manually archiving email in 4 month intervals into pst's and saving them where the users can access them if they need to.

ronnypot

You could have set these options via a GPO.

If you are going to use GFI Mailarchiver then you could ofcourse create rules on your exchange server to delete mail older than 4 months and your users can find the older mail in the Mailarchiver.

With the exchange 2010 solution you create a policy to move all mail older than 4 months to the users archive mailbox. But the archive mailbox is ofcourse stored on your exchange server, you could decide to create a second store on a different cheaper storage array. If you are interested please take a look at minimal requirement for outlook.

mkrh09

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"the archive mailbox is ofcourse stored on your exchange server"

What do you mean by this? Do you mean that the email won't be moved to .pst's?

ronnypot

Yes in exchange 2010 you have a new feature called Archive Mailbox it is just a specific mailbox on your exchange server. This is one of the great new features, it gives you the oppurtunity to get rid of the pst files.

Read here about it: http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/08/archive-mailbox-in-exchange-2010.html