Stop Archiving and restore all emails

[Nysoh]

Hi All,

A number of users in the company has started a seprate business, but they are still in the same domain and exchange. The request is to move them into a new seprate data store to keeps thing tidy and stop email archiving through EV for them.

However before stoping the archiving, what is the best solution to restore all the emails back to inbox or restore as a seprate data files??

Please advise any best time solution for this request.

Many Thanks

Sohail

[RahulG]

If you restore all the emails , it might affect the exchange mailbox quota . Better would be import the archvies to a PST file .

You can disable the users from the Vault admin console so no new items get archive but they can still access the archive.

[Nysoh]

and Its all make sense, any guide for how to import archives as PST?

Thanks for the help so far!!

[GertjanA · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Depending on EV Version:

place users in seperate provisioning group. untick 'archive mailboxes in this provisioning group'

create desktop policy to only show archive explorer and search, assign this desktop policy to PG. also create archiving policy to archive items older than 99999 years.

Exporting Archives into PST:

rightclick archives, export, export to pst. You could set a value in the State field of the users AD account (if you don't use that), so you can find and export all of them in 1 go.

also disable users as Rahul said

[RahulG]

You can simply right click the archive and runt he PSt export wizard 

Use the Export utility to export the items from the archive to PST.
 

a. In the VAC expand the Site container.
 

b. Right click on the Archives container and click on Export.
 

c. In the Export Archive Wizard select Export Archive to PST and click Next.
 

d. Select List all available archives and click Next.
 

e. From the list select the archive that is to be moved and click Next.
 

f. Select Export all items and click Next.
 

g. Enter a valid folder path and click Next.
 

h. Click Next on the remaining dialog boxes to select the default settings and complete the wizard by clicking Finish.

Before deleting any archive its a good pratice to export the archvei to a PST. Incase if you delete an archive and you want to recover it , the only way to recover it is to restore the complete Ev server to a test environment .

[Nysoh]

Thanks guys,

Your advise is much appreciated and very helpful.

I will this a go and let you know how it goes.

many Thanks again

Regards

Sohail