Auto-archiving and Exchange 2000

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Kevin Weilbacher

Just curious ... this is for anyone that's running Exchange 2000 ... I'm
curious whether it's a good idea to enable auto-archiving in Outlook 2002.
Currently I have it disabled, but I have a couple of users whose email &
calendars are getting quite large. If I do enable it, should I let the .pst
file be created on the workstation, or direct it to a network folder, so it
can be backed up?

Thanks!
kw
 
Depends on their needs. If they need to save it store it to a pst-file if
not set it to delete it.

Note that storing pst-files on networkshares is not recommended by
Microsoft. Storing it in the user profile is a solution but could seriously
increase logon/logoff time as the file is being copied to and from the
server. Also ask yourself the question;
-Do I want to store archived data on optical disks and have it slow up and
increase my back-ups?

Since most of the time they don't look at the data anyway and when it
doesn't have a continuation function for your company (like when it is a
policy to save all your appointments for three years) I suggest you let them
burn their data to CD and let them take care of it from there.
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Thanks, Roady.

Yea ... twice I've been told "..depends on their (the customer) needs" ...
which is true. But, as with most SBS sites I work with, my customers often
go with what I tell them, 'cause they don't simply know any better. I
started this thread in order to understand the pros/cons of using
auto-archiving. I'm getting closer ...
:-)
kw
 
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