Planning for Exchange Server 2010 Personal Archives

One very important thing missing from your article is the fact that not all Outlook 2010 SKUs can utilize archiving. We found this out the hard way. We took ALL the precautions mentioned in your article but did not expect this at all. Most of our users have Outlook as a result of Microsoft Office that was purchased through an OEM when we got their computer. The rest have it from Office Standard 2010 through Volume Licensing. Unfortunately, Archiving isn't supported on either of these versions of Outlook. Archiving is only available on the following versions of Outlook. It's been a huge expense for us to have to purchase another version of Outlook for all of our users just so they can have Archiving. Outlook retail licenses Outlook 2010 stand-alone Outlook 2007 stand-alone Outlook 2007 included with Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 Outlook volume licenses Outlook 2010 stand-alone Outlook 2010 included with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Outlook 2007 stand-alone Outlook 2007 included with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Outlook 2007 included with Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Reference http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/license-requirements-for-personal-archive-and-retention-policies-HA102576659.aspx?redir=0