I have a querey, I need to migrate alot of users from our KVS to normal exchange so that they can use pst’s again. It was a very straight forward process on moving them to the KVS but is it the same moving them out?

J

I was just wondering, if KVS is enabled, and I do a full mailbox export to .pst file, do all items get dragged back from KVS into the .pst or is there anther way to “really” export the whole mailbox?

If you are using EV2007 you could create a seperate policy for Leavers. Set its archiving date range to 0 (This will suck in all emails on your next scheduled run).

Create a leavers OU in ADUC and drop your leavers in there. Setup a provisioning group that has the above 0 day policy and apply it only to users in the Leavers OU in AD.

Not 100% automated (As you have to move the users into a new container), but should do the trick!

Dave

1.) No way to script an export of an entire mailbox to PST

2.) No way to script an on-demand ‘full archive’ of a user’s mailbox. (We’d like to do this when someone quits or is leaving, this way we can simply full-archive their mailbox immediately and make their KVS store ROnly to prevent them from deleting their mail.)

3.) Restore of mailbox with stubs — since i’m not using it for compliance, i have a mess of a time fulfilling legal requests.

I am searching for good archiving solution for one of my client.
Users : 14XXX
Database size approximately : 4 TB
90% need to be archived and Exchange is 2003.

SQL is recommended to have for mail archiver (if so why)
And which vendor will be best for my current topoology considering the cost and storage wise.

Is it possible i can get rid of SQL.
Please let me know your concern