Preparing for Exchange 2003 upgrade

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MaggieV

Can someone tell me the simplest way for users to back up
their email to a .pst file to ensure they have their mail
backed up?
 
Why making that a task of the users? Why not back-up your e-mail database
instead? Additionaly it is a lot easier for the admin to use exmerge to
create individual pst-files.

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I am the application technician and have no idea how this
upgrade is planned. I assume they are going to back up
the information store but am less sure that they plan to
backup individual mailboxes (in fact, I am sure this
won't happen. Thank you for that advice and I will share
it.
If a user is nervous about loosing mail during this
process I want to be able to give them some quick and
easy instructions on how they can back this up. Some
already have personal folders created and can set rules
to do this. Others do not.
Thanks for your time, I appreciate any suggestions.
 
If the message delivery is to their personal folders (locally on their HD)
then there's nothing to backup. You should be able to recreate their
accounts on the new server and reattach them back on.

If you keep all their mail on the server (which most people should do) you
should use ExMerge to export everything in bulk.
 
Individual mailboxes don't have to be backed up; this is done completely by
the database back-up. As an admin I wouldn't want all users making
individual back-ups. Most of them will store them on the network making the
back-up process extremely slow and expensive. You'll now have the normal
database back-up on tape, the extra database back-up before the migration on
disk and individual back-ups by the users on the network. You'll now have
each mail item stored 3 times and then I'm not even counting the additional
tapes needed to go back to a certain time and the extra storage for the RAID
array on the Exchange server.

In other words; leave the back-up process to the administrators especially
during migration. But to answer your question leaving it up to the end-user;
use the Export option from within Outlook and export to a pst-file. In this
process they will loose the modified date on the items (making AutoArchive
useless for the first period), their customized views and forms.

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