Decomission EV 10.01

Is there documentation on how to proceed with all of those steps?

Not realy that I am aware of. Symantec does not promote to decomission EV :-)

So would it be correct that the following eight steps will fully remove EV from my environment:

1. Remove Shorcuts from users Mailbox- This can be accomplished by Delete shortcuts older than a day. Wait 2 days to continue to the next task.
2. Stop all tasks.
3. Export all archives to the user's network folder.
4. Remove databases.
5. Shut down servers (it's a cluister).
6. Remove Send As from the EV AD accounts.
7. Remove OWA Extensions from the Exchange Server(s)
8. Remove the EV Client from Client computers.

Is your storage local to the EV server?  If not then you'll need to clear that up too (after making a nice backup first).  In fact, I wouldn't delete ANYTHING without a nice backup first.

So how do I delete the shortcuts AND stop future archiving?

I set the Delete Shortcuts to 1 day.

D I also uncheck the provisioning group? If I do that won't it stop the policy for deleting the shotcuts too?

Set you archive rules to something like anything older than 99 years.  That will effectively stop archiving from occurring.

You can simply disable the archiving and site schedules and do a RUN NOW processing run against all mailboxes for shortcut processing.

Regards,

Jeff

How would I know when it finishes processing the archives? Is there a log or something that can inform me when it is completed?

What I am doing is deleting all the shortcuts from the mailboxes. WHen will I know it completed?

Unfortunately I don't think you will.  I don't think there is an event log entry or report for that.