Does Auto Archive work? 100's of clients don't think so.

[Judy Gleeson]

Most of my clients (Government Departments in Canberra) find that the
AutoArchive function doesn't work. It shows "Archiving..." in the corner of
the screen and flashes up the name of the Archive folder saying it's moving
items there. But when you go and look in their Calendar, no old meetings
have been moved. Their Archive Calendar also has no entries in it.

I know how to set the age etc of what gets Archived but am stumped as to why
nothing actually happens in over 100 organisations I have checked this for.

This is happening in v2000, v2002 and v2003 with all the latest service
packs.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Most of my clients (Government Departments in Canberra) find that the
AutoArchive function doesn't work. It shows "Archiving..." in the
corner of the screen and flashes up the name of the Archive folder
saying it's moving items there. But when you go and look in their
Calendar, no old meetings have been moved. Their Archive Calendar
also has no entries in it.

I know how to set the age etc of what gets Archived but am stumped as
to why nothing actually happens in over 100 organisations I have
checked this for.

This is happening in v2000, v2002 and v2003 with all the latest
service packs.

Autoarchive always works on the date an item was modified.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260217

I personally don't think PST files have any place on a network if the data
is
important/company property and is to be supported. See
http://www.exchangefaq.org/faq/Exchange-5.5/Why-PST-=-BAD-/q/Why-PST-=-BAD/qid/1209 -
and note that MS does not support accessing PST files over a LAN/WAN
connection - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=297019.

There are many server-side, enterprise level archive solutions you might
want to investigate.