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I need to archive our organization's mailboxes. But I'm reading that PST files shouldn't be put on network shares?!

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I have an Exchange 2010 server sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 server. I am currently in need of archiving the entire organization's mailboxes to the beginning of the year. There are some ridiculously large mailboxes and I need to reduce their size. So archiving onto a network share is my only option.

Now, just to be clear, nobody is going to be accessing those .PST files other than the user themselves. This shouldn't pose any issues, should it? The maximum one .PST file will be is around 20GB.

All clients are Outlook 2013.

Thanks for helping
Yashy
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Hi guys

Thanks a lot for your input.

This helped massively as I would have exported the .PST's onto the network and had people use the network shares. I believe I will go for the solution of creating a database on site as we do have Exchange Enterprise, so that way I can create an archive database. I may do a cost benefit analysis between cloud storage and archive database on site and see the difference and in the long term if that benefits us, but if I did a cloud solution, then I think I would have to create a hybrid Exchange environment which will probably entail quite some work. Either way, i'm in a better decision making position, so thanks for your advice.

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Yash
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