My company is going to start mandatory no mail left on the server
after 6 months. So users have to archive themselves.

Is their anything better than using the basic export email to a *.pst
file. Some users have done this and burned the *.pst file to a CD,
however you can view it on the CD. You need to copy it back to the PC
then take off the read only permissions.

Dose anyone know of a utility to do this better? Even if a third
party.

Thanks Ed

A large rewritable medium like a USB-stick? Make sure that it is USB 2.0 or
you could get poor performance and corruption of the pst-file. Note that
this configuration is not recommended or supported by Microsoft.

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> My company is going to start mandatory no mail left on the server
> after 6 months. So users have to archive themselves.
>
> Is their anything better than using the basic export email to a *.pst
> file. Some users have done this and burned the *.pst file to a CD,
> however you can view it on the CD. You need to copy it back to the PC
> then take off the read only permissions.
>
> Dose anyone know of a utility to do this better? Even if a third
> party.
>
> Thanks Ed

"Ed" said in news:(E-Mail Removed):
> My company is going to start mandatory no mail left on the server
> after 6 months. So users have to archive themselves.
>
> Is their anything better than using the basic export email to a *.pst
> file. Some users have done this and burned the *.pst file to a CD,
> however you can view it on the CD. You need to copy it back to the PC
> then take off the read only permissions.
>
> Dose anyone know of a utility to do this better? Even if a third
> party.
>
> Thanks Ed

So does your company provide file servers which get backed up on which
users can store their critical files? Microsoft does not recommend
using .pst files on a mapped network drive (likely to cause corruption
if the connection gets dropped) but they do recommend using .ost files
for offline networked storage of messages.

They don't want the e-mails left on the server, and assuming they have
not allocated alternative mass storage of those messages, have they also
decided to destroy all their communications older than 6 months? Have
they talked with their lawyers to determine if they are legally entitled
to destroy company documents that are so obviously young in age rather
than retaining them for 5 or 7 years?

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