Exchange Server Archiver - 3.0

Exchange Server Archiver

Learning Exchange Server Archiver - 3.0

Changing your Exchange configuration

From time to time, it may be necessary for you to change your Exchange configuration.

Renaming mailboxes in Exchange

When you rename a mailbox in Exchange, Exchange Server Archiver detects the name change, and links the renamed mailbox to its archived messages when you next archive the mailbox.

To see the renamed mailbox in the Dashboard, perform a Refresh all (Ctrl + F5) in the Admin Console. Note that the archive size column is empty until you archive the mailbox. (In some circumstances, you may need to restart the Archive Service to see the renamed mailbox.)

If the mailbox belongs to a group that has a rule applied, it will inherit the group rule following the rename. However, if a rule was applied to the mailbox individually, you must apply the rule again following the rename. For more information, see New mailbox rule inheritance.

Moving mailboxes within an Exchange organization

When you move a mailbox within the Exchange organization, Exchange Server Archiver detects the change of location.

If the mailbox inherits its rule from a group, it may inherit a different rule after the move. This means that messages could be archived to a different Archive Store. However, the old messages can still be retrieved from the old store, so it is not necessary to move them.

Moving mailboxes between Exchange organizations

When you move a user's mailbox to a different Exchange organization, you must copy back the archived messages to the Exchange server before you move the mailbox (see Copying back archived messages).

Deleting mailboxes in Exchange

If you apply a rule to a mailbox, and you subsequently delete the mailbox in Exchange, the mailbox is automatically removed from the rule's 'Applies to' list, and the rule continues to run as scheduled.

Creating a new storage group in Exchange

When you create a new storage group in Exchange, if the Archive Service user that you created when you installed Exchange Server Archiver is not a domain administrator, you must grant permissions to access the new storage group. For details of how to do this, see Granting permissions on all mailbox databases.

If the Archive Service user is not a domain administrator and you are using Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010, you must also navigate to the folder on disk for each storage group, and grant the Archive Service user permissions to read the folder and its contents. For example, for a new, default installation, the storage group is in:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Mailbox\First Storage Group

 

Keywords: Exchange Server, rename mailbox, move mailbox, delete mailbox, new storage group

See also

Creating the Archive Service user

Copying back archived messages

Managing Exchange organizations and domains

Using the Admin Console

Setting up rules

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