Hello All,
We have an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 environment and planning on moving from third party archives solution to Native Exchange archives for cost reduction purposes, upgrading to Exchange 2013 to benefit from added in place features is not within scope at
this stage.
We are looking at implementing the following steps and want to know if it will work:
1-Create archive DB(s) as per our usage and growth projections
2-Enable archives for all our users and migrate current archive content to it.
3-Create Retention Tag/Policy to move all records from live to archive "Age limit for retention" 90 days (no retention tags on the policy)
4-Enable Single Item recovery for all of our users (script the same to run twice daily to enable SIR for newly created accounts)
5-Set the "Keep Deleted Items" on the Live DB(s) to 90 days and the Archive DB(s) to 7 Years
6-We are NOT using Legal Hold or plan to use it except on per as need basis
Are we accomplishing the following:
1-Items are automatically archived after 90 days
2-Items archived now have a 7year retention based on the "keep deleted items" set for the archive DB(s)
3-Items copied back to the live mailbox by a user will be returned to the archive database the next time the folder assistant runs against this user account (based on load or if run manually)
4-Hard deleted items by a user is recoverable as long as the email record is within the retention period set at the database where it resides.
5-Hard deleted items are recoverable using MFCMapi or by a restore.
6-Items are permanently purged on the archive DB(s) after 7 years.
Any input, ideas, recommendations, clarifications would be greatly valued and appreciated.
Ash