Hmmm.. You've got some interesting lawyers then... Anyway, why not script something like ExMerge or the Mailbox Cleanup agent to delete all VM's older than XX days?
I'd also suggest getting a clarification of "longer than needed" from the attorneys. That's vague, even from a lawyer! -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Wendel, Jesse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 12:36 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Back up Exchange WITHOUT backing up voice mail > from Cisco Unified Messaging > > > Roger and others, > > We're the largest utility in the Pacific Northwest. We have > a high legal profile. > > Per our attorneys, we are not to back up voice messages > longer than needed for disaster recovery. > > If I put them in a second store, I can back that store up > just enough (say, 1-2 weeks) for disaster recovery, but not > long term, like the years we are required by FERC to keep > tapes of our email. > > What we want to avoid is having to go through or hand over > voice mail during legal discovery process. Which we'd have > to do if they were backed up as part of the regular email > store. But if they're off in their own store, we just don't > back up that store (or keep tapes for very long), and there > isn't a problem. > > The problem with doing this, as I said below - is that > Cisco's UM doesn't support secondary authentication, so I do > what I'd originally planned, which is, make a secondary > mailbox for voice and just have people attach to it; it has > to be the primary account people are logged in as, or we lose > some UM functionality. > > And I really don't want to write some kludged up event sink > based on message class to check if its a voice mail or not, > and if not, to rewrite the From line and move the sent > message over to the non-voice mail Exchange mailbox. > > So I'm hoping someone has another idea. Because I'm stuck. > > Jesse Wendel > Sr. Technical Systems Analyst > Primary Messaging/DNS Administrator > www.pse.com > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:12 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Back up Exchange WITHOUT backing up voice mail from Cisco > Uni fied Messaging > > > Yeah. Back it up as part of the store. What's the big deal? > Its going to be > backed up anyway, and going to take the same amount of time > and space. Why > are you making it needlessly complex? > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis Inc. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wendel, Jesse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:25 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Back up Exchange WITHOUT backing up voice mail from > > Cisco Unified Messaging > > > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to back up Exchange Servers > > WITHOUT backing up voice mails placed into Exchange by > > Cisco's Unified Messaging (UM). > > > > I had thought of routing messaging from the UM to a separate > > store - creating a secondary mailbox for each user - say, > > John User (juser) and John User - Voice (juser-v) - and grant > > permissions to juser to access juser-v. Unfortunately, UM is > > junk software and doesn't support secondary authentication. > > It requires one to be logged in with the juser-v account. > > > > And if I log everyone in as juser-v and let their secondary > > be juser, then every time they send mail, it isn't in the > > proper sent items mail box, and it isn't coming from the > > appropriate address. And obviously people aren't going to > > use the FROM box and manually move items from the one Sent > > Items folder to the other. > > > > I'm now reduced to speculating about writing code using the > > event sink, based on the class used by UM, to set where mail > > goes, and who it is from, but grrr, what a kludge. > > > > So I don't know what to do. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Jesse Wendel > > Sr. Technical Systems Analyst > > Primary Messaging/DNS Administrator > > www.pse.com > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Web Interface: > > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t > ext_mode=&lang=english > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
