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PST Automatic autoarchive and compact

How can I schedule (For example using a command line tool), the process of autoarchive and compact the PST Outlook files?

Our problem, is that the PST files of the users grow too much and I need to archive and compact every month

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I'm not sure i understand the question. Outlook has its own autoArchive function that you can use to Archive the email from the server/.ost file. The compact function should perform automatically.

I will need to know exactly the process you want to use and have automated. I will need to know what version of office you are running and version of windows. I will also need to know if you will want any user interaction at all or everything done in the background.
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The pst files are Outlook 2007, I want to do the autoarchive and compact task without user interaction, all must be done in the background.

(The pst are in a server, and I want to schedule this tasks during the night)

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Ok

What is the process you want to run?

Example:
User runs auto archive at predetermined time setup on local client. Emails move from OST to PST file. You setup a task to run a backup of that PST file (archive.pst) and rename to another file name at night (archive%date%.pst. User runs auto archive the next day and it creates a "new pst" with same name as original pst name (archive.pst).

Is that what you are looking for? mabye not on a day by day basis but process would be pretty much the same.

If that is not what you are looking for Please give me an exact process that you are looking for End to End.
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I want to do the same that autoarchive can do with the user interaction in outlook, but do this task as automatic process (Autoarchive for examle the emails that are one moth old, moving to another pst, and compact to reduce the size of the main pst file)
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