PST's were created by the devil. They are sooooo hard to manage and when people mess them up they look at you like you are at fault. If you are not using them now please do not start. I would do as you suggested, go with an archiving solution. What most solutions do is after a certain age, they move the email off to another server and leave a pointer in Exchange. Then when the user clicks to open the email it knows where it is and opens it from the second server. You can even import PST's into Exchange and the software will see the date and move them over the next time it runs an archive.
I have used Enterprise Vault before and found it a pretty good product. Freed me up from having to manage PST's which I believe are evil. Fine for the home user that has to use POP3 but awful in a corporate environment. There are many solutions out there. You will have to do some research and find which one works best in your environment. IMHO. YMMV...... http://www.symantec.com/business/products/overview.jsp?pcid=2244&pvid=32 2_1 Also Ed Crowley has a few things to say about PST's. Link will wrap. http://www.swinc.com/resources/exchange/faq_db.asp?status=questions&faqI D=1000&faqname=Exchange%205.5§ionID=1013§ionName=Why%20PST%20=%2 0BAD Mark From: Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 June 2008 19:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email Archiving Why not just use Outlooks archiving? Archive it to their local machines, attach as a PST and every once in a while put a copy on the server for safe keeping. Cheers! Cameron ________________________________ From: Chris Ruci [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 1:57 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Email Archiving Hey Everyone, I have a question I need help with. Currently we have Exchange 2003 Enterprise and we are cleaning up our mail storage. We have had dynamic growth in the past 2 years and our database has grown from 40gb to over 120gb. We are going through and creating new stores and storage groups to alleviate some of the stress on the databases but I still have a few users that are at 10-20GB each in their mailboxes. I try to get them to clean it up and delete some unneeded items but due to healthcare vulnerable emails they will not. Since it is the President, CEO, COO...my hands are tied. Does anyone know of an easy solution to archive their emails and make them "easily accessible". Of course I know of all the email archiving applications at an enterprise level and I am currently looking at a few but I need something for these few mailboxes rather quickly. Any ideas you can throw at me would be appreciated. Christos Ruci Manager, Management Information Systems ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ****** This email is sent for and on behalf of Inspop.com Limited ****** Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registration no. 310635. Inspop.com Limited (also trading as "Confused.com") is registered in England and Wales at 2nd Floor, Friary House, Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AE (Reg. No. 03857130 ). Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the Information Security Officer by telephone on +44 (0) 29 2043 4200. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. This email has been swept for viruses before leaving our system. Security Warning: Please note that this email has been created in the knowledge that Internet email is not a 100% secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when emailing us. Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. We may monitor the content of E-mails sent and received via our network for viruses or unauthorised use and for other lawful business purposes. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Messagelabs. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
