Hey folks, I am trying to archive a user's mailbox and I get strange
behavior. I am noticing that it is creating an archive folder of the mailbox
and subfolders as well...however, it is not moving mail messages themselves.
The mailbox was deleted and re-created a week ago so I am thinking that the
modified date was reset. Please let me know if this is a fair statement. I
have lowered the mailbox archive settings to 30 days (from 90) and still no
luck so my best guess is the modified date was changed.

Can anyone shed any light on what is going on here and how outlook XP
handles archiving. I do not have this problem is I used an Outlook 2003
client on the user;s mailbox. Is outlook 2003 looking at a differnet
timestamp than modified date?

Thanks.
-wp

It looks at the modified date which probably is set to last week when you
did the restore. Have you cekced the date already?
Also see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/archivenotworking.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

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"news.microsoft.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hey folks, I am trying to archive a user's mailbox and I get strange
> behavior. I am noticing that it is creating an archive folder of the
> mailbox and subfolders as well...however, it is not moving mail messages
> themselves. The mailbox was deleted and re-created a week ago so I am
> thinking that the modified date was reset. Please let me know if this is a
> fair statement. I have lowered the mailbox archive settings to 30 days
> (from 90) and still no luck so my best guess is the modified date was
> changed.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on what is going on here and how outlook XP
> handles archiving. I do not have this problem is I used an Outlook 2003
> client on the user;s mailbox. Is outlook 2003 looking at a differnet
> timestamp than modified date?
>
> Thanks.
> -wp
>

It was an import of the MB we performed a week ago that reset everything.
Thanks!! That answered it.

Regards.

"Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote in
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> It looks at the modified date which probably is set to last week when you
> did the restore. Have you cekced the date already?
> Also see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/archivenotworking.htm
>
> --
> Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
> Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.howto-outlook.com/
> Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more
>
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> "news.microsoft.com" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hey folks, I am trying to archive a user's mailbox and I get strange
>> behavior. I am noticing that it is creating an archive folder of the
>> mailbox and subfolders as well...however, it is not moving mail messages
>> themselves. The mailbox was deleted and re-created a week ago so I am
>> thinking that the modified date was reset. Please let me know if this is
>> a fair statement. I have lowered the mailbox archive settings to 30 days
>> (from 90) and still no luck so my best guess is the modified date was
>> changed.
>>
>> Can anyone shed any light on what is going on here and how outlook XP
>> handles archiving. I do not have this problem is I used an Outlook 2003
>> client on the user;s mailbox. Is outlook 2003 looking at a differnet
>> timestamp than modified date?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -wp
>>
>