What is the problem you are actually trying to solve?
Based on what you've said here, you are just moving the data from one place (Exchange database) to another place (archive solution database). If you just want to move emails out of the core folders, then use Messaging Records Management, built into Exchange 2007. That's what it's there for. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Exchange, outlook and auto archiving Chaps, I'm after a solution for an auto-archiving-phobic company that would allow me to reduce their massive mailbox sizes (average around 3GB, up to around 6GB or so), while still giving them one place to look for emails. The problem is that they don't want to auto-archive because they don't want the emails taken out of the organisation (ie dumping them to a pst file). The user doesn't want to have another mailbox entry in Outlook to search through when he's looking for email; he doesn't really want to have to think when looking for an email. I don't blame them really, I can't stand auto-archiving in Outlook, it's a horrid hack for a real issue. What they really should have done is to separate the archiving process from the interface, and show the user both the 'live' emails and the 'archived' emails in one set of folders (inbox, sent etc) and just have the archived ones as appearing light grey or something. That would give the benefits of archiving, but give the user one interface and one place to look at. So, what I'm looking for is some kind of workable 3rd party solution to allow me to archive emails from users mailboxes, while still giving them an easy method to search for mail (would have to work for Outlook-Anywhere clients as they are all 'transient' users). The server is Exchange 2007 and the clients are all Outlook 2007. Any suggestions ? Olly -- G2 Support Online Backups Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.g2support.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
