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What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

Here is a summary of the new Exchange 2010 archiving/retention features:

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What is Personal Archive?

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•A secondary mailbox that is configured by the administrator

•Appears alongside a user’s primary mailbox in Outlook or Outlook Web Access.

•PSTs can be dragged and dropped to the Personal Archive

•Mail in primary mailbox can be moved automatically using Retention Policies

•Archive quota can be set separately from primary mailbox

Can I have my personal archive on a secondary server?

For the best performance (search, retrieve, copy, etc), it was determined it would be best to be on the same server.

 

What is the user experience in a personal archive?

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Can I search both my local mailbox and personal archive at once?

Yes, you can both search all subfolders or advanced search.

 

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What are retention policies?

Retention policies in Exchange 2010 are the ability to expire emails either in folders or at the item level.

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Are there e-discovery tools available now?

Yes, with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) and this new tool you can perform a legal search across mailboxes if needed and delegate this role to compliance officers, legal, etc.

 

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Can I search archives and current mailboxes?

Yes and you can also search different content types.

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Published Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:30 AM by markga

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:19 PM by Blogs from the Microsoft Field

# What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

Here is a summary of the new Exchange 2010 archiving/retention features: What is Personal Archive? •A

Friday, May 22, 2009 4:01 PM by Sean D

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

Is this positioned to be used with a hierarchical storage system, such that user mailboxes can have older messages moved to this secondary mailbox which could be located on less costly storage system (SATA and/or Raid5)?  Or does it still generally go on Raid10?  

Friday, May 22, 2009 7:27 PM by markga

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

Hi Sean,

Storage has radically changed for Exchange 2010. You can use SAS with SATA drives or even JBOD SATA drives.

See my other post here for the new options:

http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg/archive/2009/05/11/what-is-new-with-exchange-2010-storage.aspx

Friday, June 05, 2009 6:46 PM by AiX

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

Hello MarkGa

It's okay with storing archive mailbox in the same server.

The most curuius is Can I put the archive mailbox in another database/storage group at the same server?

Thanx

Thursday, July 16, 2009 6:33 AM by Deepti Hait

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

Is the archived data in a seperate database? can pe put this archived data at an off site location?

Monday, July 20, 2009 1:18 AM by Sean van Osnabrugge

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

No, the archive is required to be part of the same database.  As mentioned earlier, Exchange can now be run on cheap local disk such as SATA or SAS and you will get exceptional IOPS therefore eliminating the need for cheap disk.

As for off-site, you will have to replicate the entire database offsite (both mailbox and archive).  Luckily, the new DAG does support the ability to have it's member servers exist on multiple subnets thus you could accomplish this out of the box.

Friday, December 18, 2009 9:30 PM by Fahad

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

So, we need to design our database accordingly if we want to keep archive of individual Users.

i.e.

if we are desingning 200Mb mailbox limit for 1000 users, then we need to provision another 1 GB for Archive per User.

this type of design may lead us to buy storage. because there can be need to buy lot of SATA or SAS disks.

secondly how about the movement of user mailbox who is having 2 GB or more Archive, will it be done transparently after the mailbox movement.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:30 AM by Jean

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

To continue with the designing concerns listed above by Fahad.  How does this archive work when you can have up to 16 copies of that same database for high availability?  Do they have that many archive mailboxes on all the databases?

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:41 PM by markga

# re: What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?

We have received a lot of customer feedback around seperating the archive mailbox from the primary mailbox to different storage. Stay tuned to the blog as more information arrives.

Moving large mailboxes is no longer a issue with Exchange Server 2010 as we provide the ability to move mailboxes and perform mailbox maintenance without end-user impact.

As far as the 16 database copies, each replicated database will have the archive mailboxes replicated with it.

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