SAVE ALL MESSAGES

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  Hi Matthew,
  
  Thanks for the post. There isn't a way of doing this directly, as that'd mean adding some kind of hook to the Exchange server, and we've tried to avoid the need to install anything on the Exchange machine itself so far.
  
  One way you could achieve it, though, is to set up a journalling mailbox in Exchange, and archive that with an "Always" condition (i.e. everything gets archived every time the schedule runs). Other mailboxes could have their conditions set to something more reasonable (messages older than a month, for example). (You would need to occasionally clear out the small "stub" messages the archiver would leave in the journalling mailbox.)
  
  That way, all messages will get archived from the journalling mailbox for your reference, and then in due course, they'll get archived from users' mailboxes as well. Since we single instance messages with the same content, the storage overhead of effectively archiving everything twice in the end shouldn't be too large.
  
  Hope that helps,
  Robert

  Robert C January 07, 2009 05:18

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  :lol:
  This worked GREAT!!! This meets my requirements of archiving all messages without impacting my users. Thank you!

  matthewstuder January 08, 2009 07:58

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  Here is a decent little "how to" for journaling if anyone needs it.
  http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Imp ... aling.html
  
  

  matthewstuder January 08, 2009 08:04

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  Fantastic - thanks for posting that!

  Robert C January 08, 2009 08:16

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  If a archive email is delete on the user level does it get delete on the archive level?

  firstcoverage January 20, 2009 12:42

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  firstcoverage wrote:

  If a archive email is delete on the user level does it get delete on the archive level?

  
  No, it doesn't - once messages are archived, they remain there. If you need to "expire" old messages, you can achieve this by creating a new store every however often (e.g. month, quarter), archiving new messages to that store, then disconnecting old stores after the required amount of time.
  
  If you've deleted a stub from Exchange, you can still access the archived messages by using the UAA Service's search.
  
  Thanks,
  Robert

  Robert C January 20, 2009 12:46

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