Archive ONLY deleted items folder?

[Mick]

is there any way to turn on Archival (to permanently delete items) only
in the deleted items folder. In other words, anything that is in the
inbox, the 'my favorite stuff' and the 'useless stuff that really
should be deleted but I don't want to' folders will NEVER be archived,
but anything in the deleted items older than 3 months will be
permanently deleted?

My worry is that as soon as I turn on the archival for the deleted
items folder, it says that there is no default policy, and it's going
to turn it on and set it to run every 14 days. After doing that I look
at some of the other folders and some are set to archive and some are
not. It seems to me we used to be able to just turn on archival on a
folder without saying that 'I want outlook to randomly select folders
to archive so I have to be petrified that users are going to loose
things that they don't want to'. The group policy on this looks even
less configurable. Is there any way to accomplish this so that I don't
need to worry about folders deciding that they should be archived when
I turn it on for the deleted items, and that if the user creates a new
folder down the road that it will set that folder to archive? I don't
need to have the users worrying about shutting this off for every
folder they create from here on out.

Any ideas?

Mick

 

[William Lefkovics [MVP]]

Right click on the deleted items folder and select the autoarchive tab in
Properties
Configure "Archive this folder using these settings"

Description of the AutoArchive feature in Outlook 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=830119
Back up or delete items using AutoArchive
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052433931033.aspx


As for your paranoia, that's why they invented backups (which of course you
are doing already, right?)

 

[DL]

An observation:
You seem to be confusing Archive with deletion. Archiveing merely moves
stuff to an Archive pst, which like any other pst can be opened, and remain
open, within OL, so nothing is lost.
And since you dont mention OL version, pre OL2003 format pst's have a size
limitation. Reach that size and you *will* lose mail, some if not all.

 

[Brian Tillman]

An observation:
You seem to be confusing Archive with deletion. Archiveing merely
moves stuff to an Archive pst, which like any other pst can be
opened, and remain open, within OL, so nothing is lost.

However, for the Delete Items folder, it's handy to have autoarchive dlete
items instead of move them.

 

[Mick]

<<Right click on the deleted items folder and select the autoarchive
tab in
Properties
Configure "Archive this folder using these settings" >>

But when I do this, it tells me 'auto archive defaults are not enabled,
click OK to enable them' or something like that. I guess my real
question is, can I be 100% certain that when this goes on, it is NOT
going to auto archive anything else, and when users create new folders,
are they going to be set to 'don't archive' or some other default
setting that they (or I ) will have to remember to change after the
fact?

Thanks for your input!