Outlook 2003 Archiving Question

[BMurtagh]

Hello all,

I'm currently in the process of researching Outlook 2003 and its archiving/auto-archiving features.

Here's what we're trying to accomplish.. Any emails 30+ days old go to the archive.pst file (this will be stored on a network share just as fyi). I know within the Outlook archiving settings I can save the file to the share, but my main focus is the next thing we're attempting to setup in conjunction with the first part.

Anything in the archive.pst file that is 1yr and older of the current date when the task is ran gets deleted. I have no clue if this is possible to setup within Outlook or there are other ways to go about doing this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brendan

 

[goombawaho]

Technically, any PST file should reside on the local computer and NOT on any mapped drive or share. Microsoft strongly advises against that. Now, if you copy it after the fact of creating it, that's another issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019

I'll let somebody else address the actual pruning via AutoArchive.

 

[58sniper]

You're not going to get the control you want. And, as goombawho mentions, .pst files are not only not supported on network shares, but Microsoft continuously states NOT TO DO THAT.

You'd be better off keeping the mail in Exchange and using mailbox manager policies. Or better yet, a third party achiving solution.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[goombawaho]

He didn't say they had Exchange, but regardless, above advice still applies.

 

[BMurtagh]

We're using Icewarp 9 for the moment and will be upgrading to version 10 once the Linux version is released. There's an Outlook connector installed on all the workstations that syncs the contacts, etc. Any continued information will be helpful.