Shutting down EV. Exporting everything back into exchange

[total_noob]

What would be the best way to shut down a enterprise vault and export everything back into exchange? Also clean out everything EV related in the mailboxes.

Should i just run the export wizard and afterwards remove shortcuts with a provisioning group? 

[Maverik]

Couple of ways you could do it.  Use the export to original mailbox function on each archive, ensuring you have disabled archiving for new items and then run delete orphaned shortcut for any old orphaned shortcuts.  I think the export to mailbox will restore the shortcuts as well, but you may want to double check this. 

Just out of curiosity why are you getting rid of EV?

[total_noob]

Exporting everything with export wizard will not delete shortcuts from the mailboxes. 

Customer are not satisfied with EV and has no further need for it. 

[Rob_Wilcox1]

You may have to remove the shortcuts manually (ie via a vbscript, with some CDO).

Export Archive won't remove the shortcuts if the archived item was moved after it was archived.

[WiTSend]

You can use Exmerge to remove the shortcuts.

[DavidO]

You could consider a third party to to help with this.   Information on our EV Mailbox restore tool is at:

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

It will restore just the items the user has short-cuts for, and will remove the shortcuts.

Dave

[Simon_Butler]

Use a managed folder rule to delete all messages with EV classes.