Moving from Vault back to Exchange

[Celtic]

Hi,

If I want to move the content from Exchange back to the vault and then close the vault what is the best way to do it?

Is it to use the export wizard to

1. export archive to psts, import psts to exchange mailbox and the then close vault?

or

2. export archives directly into mailbox and then close vault?

Thanks

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Export Archive takes data out of the vault, back to a mailbox/pst.

Can you rephrase your question, and I'm not sure it makes sense?

[Ameen]

If you really want to move the data to Exchange use the second method,

export archives directly into mailbox and then close vault?

[Celtic]

Thanks guys,

If I use the second method will the stubs be gone (either deleted or updated when the mail gets brought back into exchange mailbox) and just the original emails will appear in the users mailbox?

[Nick_White]

The shortcuts will not be automatically removed. However, you can set the Mailbox policy to delete shortcuts that are older than 1 day and then do a run now of the Archiving task set to shortcut processing only

[Celtic]

Thanks Nick,

So the only way to have the shortcuts removed is to set a policy to delete them? There is no way of the wizard automatically doing this when it ports the archived data back to the mailbox?

Also would it be best to configure the policy to delete the shortcuts before the archive is moved back into the vault, or is it fine to do it also when the data has been moved?

Thanks again

[DavidO]

There are 3rd party products that can automate this task, including ours.  See:

http://www.vault-solutions.com/ourproducts/enterprise-vault-restore.html

Dave

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Another way is write a tiny bit of vbscript + cdo to clear out the shortcuts "afterwards".