[dba-Tech] Exchange/Outlook - autoarchive prob

Andy Lacey andy at minstersystems.co.uk
Mon Jun 28 09:38:26 CDT 2004


Thanks Stephen. He's right of course that you can't make the autoarchive
static but Jim's answer did me fine, allowing me to switch off AutoArchiving
at all machines bar one. Just the ticket. But thanks again for taking the
trouble.

--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Exchange/Outlook - autoarchive prob
Date: 28/06/04 12:45

>
> Andy I forwarded your q on to my local guru and he replied as follows:
>
> <quote>
> Hey Stephen,
>
> I am not really a big fan of AutoArchive and considering Exchange 5.5
> can have a single information store of 16GB is there a real need for
> this.
>
> There is no real way of making it static to one place unless you use
roaming profiles.  This of course could have an effect on log-in time
because you are dragging the archives across the wire each time you log in
and log out.
> </quote>
>
> HTH
>
>
> > Andy Lacey wrote:
> >
> > >Hi folks
> > >Any ideas on this one? Exchange 5.5 + Outlook 2K.
> > >
> > >A single user uses 3 different workstations and accesses his
> > mail from all
> > >3. Autoarchive is used to archive items over a certain age
> > to a local PST.
> > >However it appears that Autoarchive rules are held at the
> > server cos any
> > >change at one w/s is picked up next time he uses a different
> > w/s. And the
> > >problem is that as autoarchiving can kick off at any time
> > his archive end up
> > >getting divided between the 3 machines. IOW if he goes to
> > pc1 on Monday it
> > >may do some autoarchiving to that m/c's C: drive, and if he
> > uses pc2 on
> > >Tuesday the archiving puts some items into the archive on
> > that C: drive. One
> > >possible solution would be to make the archive a file on the
> > network, but
> > >then it wouldn't be available if the net was down. Has
> > anyone encountered
> > >this? Anyone got a neat solution? We'd like to elect that
> > one w/s archives
> > >and the rest don't but this seems impossible.
> > >
> > >-- Andy Lacey
> > >http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
> > >
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> > Marty Connelly
> > Victoria, B.C.
> > Canada
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