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SYM-AJ's avatar
SYM-AJ
Level 5
8 years ago

Scripting a RUN NOW archive operation for a single mailbox

I am running EV12.1.1 with Exchange Mailbox Archiving / Journal Archiving in place.

I have a requirement every few hours to completely archive all items from a specific mailbox, and rather than having to perform this from the VAC I would like to be able to script it (Powershell perhaps).

I cannot see any of the Powershell Cmdlets which will do this for me - maybe I am missing something.

Is this possible ?

Thanks,

AJ

  • ChrisLangevin's avatar
    ChrisLangevin
    8 years ago

    This is not possible in the current release. It's a much requested feature and is on our radar for future development, but we don't have any plans to address it right now.

     

    --Chris

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  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    Moderator
    8 years ago

    Hello AJ,

    I don't think you can. Below is theory. I do not have mailbox archiving in my environment, so cannot test for you:

    Create an archiving policy for this one mailbox, create a provisioning group, targeting only this mailbox. Create a new mailbox archiving task using this one pg. The unknown here (by me that is) is if you can target the same exchange server with two mailbox archiving tasks.... If you can, set the schedule for this new task to run every x hours.

    If using two tasks to one exchange server if not possible, you might still be able to use the above, then schedule the existing task to run every x-hours. This will also perform the archive operation on the other mailboxes, but assuming your archiving policy is different, that should not pose too much of a problem. If you have the luxury of being able to move this mailbox to a seperate Exchange server (perhaps a journal server?) you might be able to do something on that.

    If something else pops in mind, I'll let you know.

  • ChrisLangevin's avatar
    ChrisLangevin
    Level 6
    8 years ago

    This is not possible in the current release. It's a much requested feature and is on our radar for future development, but we don't have any plans to address it right now.

     

    --Chris