Manage Saved Messages with the Exchange Archive Agent

In "Enabling Message Journaling on Exchange Server" (December 1999), we talked about configuring Exchange Server for message journaling. Message journaling is a method for saving a copy of messages for legal or business reasons. Although message journaling is becoming a hot topic among companies that want to bring their email systems into compliance with government or business requirements, a big drawback is the scarcity of message-archiving tools. You need to be able to easily transfer all the messages from the journal recipient to another medium to prevent the message volume from overwhelming the Information Store (IS).

CommVault Systems (http://www.commvault.com) and SRA International (http://www.assentor.com) offer products that work with message journaling for long-term message archiving. However, Microsoft designed the Microsoft Exchange Server Archiving Agent (EAA) specifically for low-budget, high-volume message archiving. EAA lets you easily archive messages that are in the journaling recipients. You don't have to use EAA with message journaling. You can use EAA as a freestanding utility to simply dump all the messages in a mailbox or public folder. . . .