• Microsoft Exchange Server

    Exchange 2010 and Archive-Only Mailboxes

    Once upon a time, in a dark and dreary place, Exchange administrators (an already downtrodden lot mind you) had to let users archive their mail to pst files. These files, open while Outlook was open and distributed across the enterprise file servers, caused the poor Exchange administrators great pain and suffering as they were uncontrollable. The pst files roamed, causing great pains to SMB/CIFS, switching and other admins and these pst files worse of all had no policies applied to them. Then came a bright knight in shining armor. He brought with him Exchange 2010 and stories of mailboxes that could be used for archival to replace the monstrosity pst…