Halp Anyone here know exchange?
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create a personal folder for the majority of emails on a user machine, limit their public mailbox to 100mb so they constantly have to move shit over to their personal folders.
for automatically backing up the pst's on their local machine, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238782/
you can backup the pst's to a network drive, which is then also backed up... MS just doesn't recommend having local pst's on a network drive, they've got no issues with making backups to a network drive.
to be SOX compliant, exchange has to somehow save all emails that ever came through it's server somewhere anyways... not sure how that all works.
for automatically backing up the pst's on their local machine, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238782/
you can backup the pst's to a network drive, which is then also backed up... MS just doesn't recommend having local pst's on a network drive, they've got no issues with making backups to a network drive.
to be SOX compliant, exchange has to somehow save all emails that ever came through it's server somewhere anyways... not sure how that all works.
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I don't like this as a user. I do not have a work laptop (thank god), but I do need to access my emails from home from time-to-time so logging into the webaccess site I am able to see everything.
If it was stored on my machine I wouldn't be able to see anything... right?
Once you archive the files, they are permanently removed from the Exchange server. This is also the reason why archiving to a local machine is a bad idea. Unless the user needs to access their email remotely (i.e. a laptop not connecting to VPN), there's no reason why you'd put a pst locally. Because if a person's hard drive dies, so does their email.
You woudln't see what you archived correct. (unless you VPN in and remote into said machine)
However any archiving would result in the same situation if you just use webmail, as webmail is strictly what's on the server. So if they put mailbox restrictions on you, you either have to delete, or not use webmail.
Thankfully, my company doesn't do any of this. Everything is hosted on the server without archiving Yay!
I don't know what that means and I hope it never happens.Restrictions will come when they have to buy a SAN just for email.
SOX: hello symantec enterprise vault. hate it
we have 350mb mailboxes and that's when you get your first warning. we also allow 30mb attachments so you have to scale accordingly
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the files are moved from the exchange server once you move them from your public folder to your PST on your local machine, which then using outlooks autobackup can be backed up to a network drive on a regularly basis......
however, if you're at a publicly traded company and have to comply with sarbanes oxley (the massive fallout of laws and regulations put in place after enron that has lead to trillions being thrown in the trash by companies trying to comply), even though you can no longer access your email once moved from your public folder, it's still saved somewhere and can be retrieved by your exchange geeks at your forensics geeks request.
If you already are backing up your exchange server (you are backing it up right?) then this isn't necessary, you'd be backing up mail twice.
According to Chikken (I think?), you have to have ALL email from the date of your oldest email through today. I think it was his company that only keeps emails for 3-6 months. EVERYTHING over that is deleted and employees aren't allowed to save emails locally, lest they be in violation of SOX.