Mailbox Manager - Exchange 2003

2008-01-23 Thread Jason Tierney 
I have a client who needs to begin a regular purging of information from their 
Exchange Servers in order to comply with their new retention policies.  
Basically, they want to purge everything from all folders (system created and 
the many, many, user created folders) after xx number of days, with the 
exception of calendar, contacts, tasks and a few user defined folders (and 
their subfolders).

Can mailbox manager policies do this?  I've used them before for custom 
folders, and quite frankly it was spotty.  My thought is to set a single policy 
for all users (this is a 25 mailbox organization) and set the proper settings 
for each system defined folder, add the custom folders and settings, then 
enable the all other folder setting.  Should these settings flow properly?

Also, I recognize that Exchange 2007 has vastly improved the abilities of this 
functionality and can certainly use this reason as a catalyst to upgrade, but I 
don't want to lie :).  So if Exchange 2003 can do it, but Exchange 2007 can do 
it that much better, I need to be able to portray that.

Any help is, as always, much appreciated.

Jason

Jason Tierney, MCSE
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RE: Mailbox Manager - Exchange 2003

2008-01-23 Thread Tom Strader 
GoExchange..   DOH



-Original Message-
From: Jason Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:36 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Mailbox Manager - Exchange 2003

I have a client who needs to begin a regular purging of information from
their Exchange Servers in order to comply with their new retention
policies.  Basically, they want to purge everything from all folders
(system created and the many, many, user created folders) after xx
number of days, with the exception of calendar, contacts, tasks and a
few user defined folders (and their subfolders).

Can mailbox manager policies do this?  I've used them before for custom
folders, and quite frankly it was spotty.  My thought is to set a single
policy for all users (this is a 25 mailbox organization) and set the
proper settings for each system defined folder, add the custom folders
and settings, then enable the all other folder setting.  Should these
settings flow properly?

Also, I recognize that Exchange 2007 has vastly improved the abilities
of this functionality and can certainly use this reason as a catalyst to
upgrade, but I don't want to lie :).  So if Exchange 2003 can do it, but
Exchange 2007 can do it that much better, I need to be able to portray
that.

Any help is, as always, much appreciated.

Jason

Jason Tierney, MCSE
Vice President, Consulting Services

Corporate Network Services
Count on Us
20010 Fisher Ave, Suite E
Poolesville, MD 20837
direct: 240-425-4441 | main: 301.948.8077 | fax: 301.349.2518
http://www.cornetser.comhttp://www.cornetser.com/
Best Place to Work, Alliance for Workplace Excellence - 2006  2007

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