Exchange Archiving - to be, or not to be?

posted by  techgeek (12)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

A lot of customers have looked at archiving solutions for Exchange over the last few years, and the most common reason for doing so is to reduce the volume of data held on the Exchange server. This obviously brings benefits for the administrators - they don't need to back so much "stuff" up every night, and they have a chance to use the archive for longer term compliance/discovery purposes. I've even seen customers using archives as a way of migrating content from another email system - eg company migrating from Novell Groupwise to Microsoft Exchange decides they would just bung all the Gro