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Search Exchange Journal for Keywords

I need to search archived Exchange 2003 journaling stores for keywords.

I have reveiwed our current Journaling implementations (comparing settings to this link and this technet article) and our corporate journals seem to be configured very similar to the recommendations outlined.

As a result of limited space and large jorunaling databases, we routinely move journaling dbs to archival media and start a new journaling db.

I have three questions:

1. Mounting Archived Journals

How would you recommend I mount these stored DBs - expressly concerning the fact these dbs have been relocated to archival storage (in this case, NAS units)?

2. Search Journals For Keywords

How does one search journaling stores for keywords? Is the a publishation on this on the www?

3. Filtering Search Results

Does the search process allow one to filter to a date range(s)? keywords within attachments? wildcards? multiple keywords in one search?

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lucid8

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j9thomp

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Most of your suggestions were I was...thank you!

Soooooooo...here is what I opted for. ;)

We use EAS to archive our email - including our journaling mailbox. I opted to use EAS to search the journaling archive (all 2Tb of it - which include mail from journals that have been moved to archival locations).

After searching for 60 keywords within 3 users journal results for a 9 month timeframe, I found 146 emails.

Thanks for the input...I remain interested in resolving the original questions - yet am certain that time vs. ROI is not significant.

lucid8

ok yes if you have a full blown archiving system and your Journal DB is just the interim point, i.e. assume all items sent received are journaled and then EAS extracts the data based upon your settings and stores it in the long time archive? If so then yea you are best to search your actual EAS archive system since it should have all pertinent data.

As far as how to do with the Journal databases my above suggestions are the way to make it happen and in your case if you have the time and resources you may want to create a recovery network that is disconnected from your live system so that you can rotate out the journaling EDB and search at will, but as you say you need to weigh the ROI vs time and resources and unless there is something I am missing it wouldn't seem prudent to do so since the EAS archive has what you need eh?

lucid8

Thanks for the points as well :-)