exporting and Re-archiving a user

[wilsond3010]

running ev8 sp3 with a forever retention policy

but we have a user who wants to have everything placed back into her mailbox so she can clean it up and then we can re-archive her with the new improved mailbox

so do i have to export her and then disable and delete her from enterprise vault (or would this fail because of the policy in place)

[TonySterling]

Quick question about your storage, is it going to prevent the delete?

Does the Retention Category prevent deletes?

[wtsend]

Another option, if you allow user's to delete from their vault, would be to use the Virtual Vault.  She could move items into different folders, delete items, delete folders, etc...

[wilsond3010]

Storage wouldn't prevent the deletion.

Wits.  I did look at that but i kept running into warnings because the main policy has a retention forever setup

which is why i thought i might need to export and remove her from ev another way

[TonySterling · Accepted solution]

If you do not want to go the VV route then I think you should be ok export the users Archive back to Exchange.  Just make sure you know the impact on Exchange :)  You probably would want to restore a 20 GB archive back.

I would recommend disabling the user and deleting the old archive at that point.  Once the user is done, enable them and re-archive.  You might have to use the IgnoreEVDates registry key.

Cheers,