Change default path of "Reports" Directory

[hkadoun]

Hello all,

Do you know if it's possible to modify the default path for the "Reports" directory?

Thanks

[TonySterling]

Do you mean for the mailbox archiving and provisioning reports?  Unless there is a hidden setting I don't think you can change this.

What you could do is share that folder out so it could be accessed that way.

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Can I ask why you would want to modify the path?

[hkadoun]

Yes it's for the mailbox archiving and provisionning reports.

Why?

First, It's just because it's a reflex from Exchange, IIS Installation.

Second, it can be useful if you want to keep a large amount of reports and dedicated a volume for this.

[Rob_Wilcox1 · Accepted solution]

I *imagine* you can make it a junction point (Sysinternals have a tool I think? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx) to another location on the same machine.. if that would help.

It is worth noting though, that I *think* some of processes work out the report folder by looking up the Install folder, and then going in to REPORTS from that.  In fact I think most do, so I don't think updating one registry setting (if there were one) will help completely.

Lastly,  you mentioned keeping "alot" of reports ...  lots of the EV processes tidy up the number of reports which are kept.  Just worth mentioning.

Random alternative you may wish to consider ...  xcopy (or similar) the folder once per day / twice per day, from the EV server to another server.

[hkadoun]

Thanks for the answers

If there's no registry setting, I think I will pass on this "reflex" for EV 

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Okay - please feel free to mark one of the posts as a solution if it helped your understanding.