Autoarchiving to network drive

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Wer have a conlict of opinions here.
One person wants to have users autoarchive to thier local drives and copy
the archive to thier network home spaces

Another Person wants users to autoarchive directly to thier network
homespace.

Exchange 2003, Outlook 2003. All active mail stored on exchange server.

Which is right?
 
The first person is correct. Microsoft does not support .pst use across a network. But copying a file is always OK. You'll just have to do it when Outlook is not running.

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You can use a product such as BackupAssist
http://www.backupassist.com/BackupAssist/mailboxAddon/info.html

This will archive directly from the Exchange store.
It uses Exmerge with it's rich filtering while adding a whole raft of
additional features beyond just mailbox (brick level) backup, like
automatically creating running 2GB .pst Archive Files.

You can schedule it just prior to Server Backup for Offsite storage, and the
individual workstations needn't be on with Outlook running.
 
STapley said:
Wer have a conlict of opinions here.
One person wants to have users autoarchive to thier local drives and
copy the archive to thier network home spaces

Another Person wants users to autoarchive directly to thier network
homespace.

Exchange 2003, Outlook 2003. All active mail stored on exchange
server.
Which is right?
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As other replies state, PST files have to be accessed on the local hard
drive. You *can* point them at a network drive, but this isn't supported,
and will usually lead to data loss, and performance problems for sure.

That said, since you have Exchange server, avoid PSTs. See
http://www.exchangefaq.org/faq/Exchange-5.5/Why-PST-=-BAD-/q/Why-PST-=-BAD/qid/1209
(you'll need to click to expand/display)

An enterprise server-side archive product is a much better idea if you are
interested in getting older data out of users' mailboxes. If the data is
important, it shouldn't be on someone's hard drive, and data in a PST file
takes up more space than it did in the mailbox, so storing it on the
Exchange server doesn't make much sense either.

At any rate, if you absolutely must use PST files, don't use
autoarchive.Control archiving to PST manually, to ensure that users actually
know where their data is.
 
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