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Exchange 2010 and PST files - what to do?

Hi all

I wondered what you are all considering to do (if anything at all) when you migrate to Exchange 2010 (now that SP1 is out) with PST files?

I know that Microsoft are pushing the 'age of the large mailbox' so it makes sense to bring PST files back into the fold right?

So the big question is - how would you do it? Manually with Powershell?

Let me know.

Regards
Michael

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Permalink Reply by Graycat on September 1, 2010 at 11:36am

For us this has already been decided - Enterprise Vault.

Yep, after years of having no e-mail archiving solution and relying on PSTs combined with a manual archiving process for terabytes of e-mails we're not jumping in whole hog!

Fingers crossed the contract will be signed this week and then we can start really getting our geek on planning the roll out of this so we can get to Exchange 2010. Not bad considering I've still got an Exchange 2000 Enterprise server kicking about somewhere. :)

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Permalink Reply by John McGrath on September 3, 2010 at 4:54pm

We are currently using Enterprise Vault, and it is pretty good for Email Archival. The biggest issue we have had is importing PST's that are currupt (Go figure, that never happens...), and users losing archived email.

Making sure that the Outlook plugin is started is also another big issue, because the user can accidentally turn it off.