Complainance Archiving in Exchange 2010

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for your support.
We are looking for a e-mail archiving solution to archive for complaince with Exchange 2010 where all the e-mails sent and received should be archived. We want to keep these e-mails for 10 years. Also, the folder structure of the mailbox should be replicated
to the archiving solution. Our mailbox growth is about 1 GB/month approx and also the performace of the archiving solution should be good when users try to access their old emails from the archive.

Hi Nothing -
You bring up two items, Archiving and Compliance.  Exchange has built-in solution for Archiving emails with the Archive mailbox but they compliance solution with retention of 10 years...Exchange just isn't there yet.  Aside from mailbox size and
retentions, you now have logs that you need to keep, dumpsters to grow, etc.  It would make more sense to look into a third party solution for 10 year retention at this time.  Exchange 2013 will give you a little better option with Time Based/Query
Based holds but its still not where it needs to be.
I would think about using Journaling for compliance to a 3rd party solution so that you are able to search and retain and apply rules.  There are a lot of good ones out there to look at.  Some have built-in features to stub emails so you could
theoretically use it for Archiving as well.
Jason Apt, Microsoft Certified Master | Exchange 2010
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