Export to PST question

[morrisok]

I am looking to export all items with one retention category applied to a pst, then rearchive them with another retention category. Is there a way to ensure items in the archive that are being exported are delete from the archive? I do not want to have duplicate items (one with each retention categiry) after re-archviing.

Thanks,

EV 8.0.4 for MS Exchange | Windows 2008 STD 64bit sp2

[Rob_Wilcox1 · Accepted solution]

The only way to get the export to delete is if you're doing :-

* Export Archive from the VAC

* Choosing a particular folder structure, per this screenshot :

You will probably have to do a 2-step procedure.  Do the export first (and verify you got what you expected), and then do an Advanced Browser search (search.asp?advanced=3) and do the delete from there.

[morrisok]

Thanks,

 I was looking at that option, but that is going to get messy :\ Was hoping for an easier way to do it,

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Yep .. Unfortunately there isn't :(

[AndrewB]

how many archives do you have to do this for?

[morrisok]

I have to do it for about 30 archives :(

[morrisok]

If i import the pst back into the mailbox, and choose to not create shortcuts, will the shortcut processing update the link between the stub and the re-archived message?

[DavidO]

Won't Enterprise vault mailbox archiving automatically change the retention for you?  You should be able to use EVPM to change the retention on the mailbox, and after mailbox archiving is run, it should set the retention for you.

We have a product which can do this also, but with recent versions of EV it has not been required.  Let me know if I'm missing something here.

Dave

http://www.vault-solutions.com