What's the performance hit on starting to delete shortcuts?

[BruGuy]

Hello,

We have EV8SP5 with mainly Outlook 2003 clients. About 4000 mailboxes enabled for archiving since 1-2 years. Up to now, we never deleted user shortcuts. We need to start doing that now because most users have accumulated a few thousand shortcuts each.

99% of the users are in the same default archiving policy. If we enable the policy option to delete shortcuts, e.g., after one year, what kind of performance hit will we take? Will the shortcuts only be deleted during the archiving run (currently 10pm - 2am)? Is EV clever enough to throttle the work over a few days? Will it stop archiving mailboxes while shortcuts are being deleted?

Thanks for any advice,

- Alan.

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

EV will not throttle the process, the impact it can have is usually negligible, what most people will see is just more Exchange Transaction Log growth than anything else, you may see less than normal amounts being archived throughout that process though

But honestly, things like shortcut expiry is an ongoing process, there typically isnt an end to it, because you can run it today and a load gets deleted, but tomorrow therewill be new items a year old, and they get deleted etc etc

You could use Exchange to just delete the shortcuts instead that are a certain age instead