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San_Bangalore's avatar
San_Bangalore
Level 5
12 years ago

Manual Archive Automation Solution

We have a situation wherein we need to run manual archiving for few users. Is there any way I can automate? so that I can run the archiving for some people in EV 9.0.2 (Users might reside on multiple Exchange servers)

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  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    12 years ago
    So I wrote an app some time ago that simply posts to the A3 queue What I normally do is your journaling on for the A3, submit a run now request and then examine the msg body I then use C# and the MSMQ net libraries to post the similar kind of message with a different user and then built a simple config file that has the users archive ID I then lookup each archive ID in the directory database and find their exchange server and the EV server that has the exchange archiving task and it's MSMQ path I then post the formatted archive request in to A3 and the archive task picks it up and performs a run now against the mailbox I submitted
  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    By manual archiving do you mean manual archiving on the client side?  For one or a few items?

     

    Or do you mean 'run now' from the server side?

  • San_Bangalore's avatar
    San_Bangalore
    Level 5
    12 years ago

    Manual archive from the server side. We have some situations wherein we have to run the archive manually. Just thinking how do I automate this?

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    AFAIK you can only do a 'run now' and pick the users you want to touch.

    There is no equivalent of the FSARUNNOW command line tool.

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    12 years ago

    You can programatically post a message to the A3 queue which is how i've done it in the past

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    12 years ago
    So I wrote an app some time ago that simply posts to the A3 queue What I normally do is your journaling on for the A3, submit a run now request and then examine the msg body I then use C# and the MSMQ net libraries to post the similar kind of message with a different user and then built a simple config file that has the users archive ID I then lookup each archive ID in the directory database and find their exchange server and the EV server that has the exchange archiving task and it's MSMQ path I then post the formatted archive request in to A3 and the archive task picks it up and performs a run now against the mailbox I submitted
  • San_Bangalore's avatar
    San_Bangalore
    Level 5
    12 years ago
    We had these questions - Once I find out the archive ID for whom I need to run the manual archive, How do I put that users mails into A3 queue? - How do I specify how many number of mails need to be archived? If you have a copy of the script please put it here.