Better Export than *.pst?

[Ed]

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

 

[Roady [MVP]]

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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"Ed" said in news:[email protected]:

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?