I am attempting to pull 500,000 emails from an exchange server farm (7 exchange servers), to use in testing a new email/archival solution. My problem is that the emails are not stored on the exchange servers, themselves. They are pushed to an archival solution that is already in place (which isn't a very good product). My question/problem is how do I obtain these emails without:
I would think that it would be as simple as entering a rule into the exchange server(s), copying all emailing (incoming & outgoing) to a new server or SAN.
Please respond with viable solutions to this.. Thanks.
Can you be more specific on which archiving product that you are using? Also, did it leave a stub message in the store and what is the process that is required to restore the message? Do you need a client in outlook to query the archival system to get the message to be restored?
- Joel
My apologies for not being too forth coming with the specifics.
The archiving solution/vendor is Assentor/Vault. Stubs were in fact left in the store however I'm trying to obtain these emails in "real-time", if you will. Is there a way for me to forward (really cc) all incoming & outgoing mail (about 2 days worth) to let's say an Exchange Backup server, without disturbing the production enviornment, and without having to rely on the Archival Solution?
If you are trying to get new emails that are generated you can use store (message only, bcc, envelope) journaling. You can set this up in the properties of the mailbox store and forward all sent/received mail to a mailbox on another Exchange server or mailbox.
You can also send the messages to another SMTP server for processing but I'm not sure you are looking for that.
Setting up journaling to external SMTP servers: http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/8/4/d849fed1-1c04-44ac-80c4-7849ce8a0931/continuity_envelope_journaling_configuration_sql.doc
More information about journaling: http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Implementing-Exchange-2003-Message-Journaling.html