Greetings,
I am wondering if it is possible to archive user email to a secondary database and still have it show up in Outlook / OWA? We would like to trim our databases in the production environment, but still allow access to 6 months or older email, yet keeping it in a secondary datastore, on a slower drive.
Once email is of a certain age, it will be purged on a monthly basis to PST file, kept in an offline archive (This part I am pretty sure I can do with the powershell)
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
You can use export-mailbox to export data out of a mailbox into a folder of another mailbox, or even to a PST with SP1. The problem lies in the fact that there is no good way for the user to get to that information without opening another mailbox. In Outlook you could specify a second mailbox to open that would show up in folders list but its clunky. In OWA you would need to get the user to manually open that other mailbox anytime they need the extra data.
If this is what you want we can work up the command syntax.
It would be something like this (with some logic to pass the mailbox name):
Export-Mailbox -TargetMailbox ExportMailbox -TargetFolder MailboxName -StartDate "02/02/08" -EndDate "02/15/08" -DeleteContent
- Joel