colin_dalziel
16 years agoLevel 3
Symantec Evault Leaver process
Hi,
We've recently installed Enterprise Vault & we're trying to formulate a viable process to deal with employee mailboxes after they have left the Company.
We're also Transitioning from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 at the same time & have set a default EV rule to archive all email items as they age to six months.
We would prefer to archive the leaver's mailbox to a Personal Folder File [*.pst] & retain the *.pst for a short period of time pending any queries or the employee's return. This would allow us to delete the Exchange mailbox without losing potential access to the mailbox contents. Clearly archiving the mailbox in place is only going to archive the shortcuts to the vaulted items which doesn't suit the process. Has anyone encountered the same issues & found a manageable way forward?
Our preferred options would be either . .
Force all vaulted items back into the mailbox from the EV server, without accessing the Exchange mailbox directly, then use the Exchange 2007 Management Shell to export the mailbox to a *.pst.
or . . .
Force all mailbox items into EV, without accessing the Exchange mailbox directly, then export the vault contents to *.pst.
Are either of these option achievable or is there a different way to reach a similar outcome?
Thanks for any assistance anyone can offer.
Colin
We've recently installed Enterprise Vault & we're trying to formulate a viable process to deal with employee mailboxes after they have left the Company.
We're also Transitioning from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 at the same time & have set a default EV rule to archive all email items as they age to six months.
We would prefer to archive the leaver's mailbox to a Personal Folder File [*.pst] & retain the *.pst for a short period of time pending any queries or the employee's return. This would allow us to delete the Exchange mailbox without losing potential access to the mailbox contents. Clearly archiving the mailbox in place is only going to archive the shortcuts to the vaulted items which doesn't suit the process. Has anyone encountered the same issues & found a manageable way forward?
Our preferred options would be either . .
Force all vaulted items back into the mailbox from the EV server, without accessing the Exchange mailbox directly, then use the Exchange 2007 Management Shell to export the mailbox to a *.pst.
or . . .
Force all mailbox items into EV, without accessing the Exchange mailbox directly, then export the vault contents to *.pst.
Are either of these option achievable or is there a different way to reach a similar outcome?
Thanks for any assistance anyone can offer.
Colin
- My first thoughts are to forget PST files. Why export to PST when the data is in the archive, thats storing double the amount of data.
For the leavers I would archive all the contents of the mailbox into the archive then delete the users mailbox. As an admin you can search the mailbox and even extract it without the need for the users mailbox.
Then when a time set by management has passed you can delete the users archive
To force the content of the mailbox without shortcuts into the archive just create a policy that does this and apply the policy to the users archive