export archive file to pst and live exchange mail to pst versus export archive back to mail file ?

Create a policy + provisioning group and add those users to this PG.
Set the policy to delete shortcuts after 0 days.

After this, you can export the mailbox without shortcuts.

- OR -

Search the mailbox for IPM.Note.EnterpriseVault.* (Message Class) and delete them manually

/Michel

Thanks Michel. I like the sound of the first one, as I'd already created the prov group, based upon the default poilcy behaviour, but hadn't fiddled with the shortcuts settings. Thanks :)

Hi Michel,
last week, I prepared for the shortcuts to be deleted - the shortest time period I could select for them appears to be 1 day. If I select 0 days, apply the change and check the policy again, 0 Days is clearly there, but the check box for 'Delete shortcuys in folders' becomes unchecked.

One mistake I made was that I didn't change the rank of the provisioning group, so that it was higher that the 'all mailboxes' policy. The result was that the shortcuts weren't deleted.

The documentation seems to warn agains running the shortcuts schedule more than one a week, I guess for performance reasons.
I presume that this is controled through the 'Storage Expiry' tabs' schedule on the Site Properties
panel ?

Whjat are the implications of changing the storage expiry schedule to force a quicker deletion of those shortcuts ? At the moment it is only scheduled to occur over the weekend

Please enlighten me if I've got any / all of this wrong ? Please ladvise if i've missed anything else?

thanks,  E_Novice

What version of EV do you have?

Shortcut deletion occurs once a week in EV2007, set by the schedule in the Archive Task properties, shortcut deletion tab. (this is off the top of my head, but I think it is right)

Shortcut deletion in EV8 happens everytime the Archive Task runsto the schedule.  You can also do a Run Now and choose Shortcut processing only, or an Archive and Shortcut processing.

Other suggestion I have for you, create a policy with 0 Day archiving based on Age.  Apply it to the users in question.  Then run an archive job for these users.  Once done export the Archive to PST.  Again you will only have 1 PST to give to the users.

We're EV2007 (7.5 SP3).

I suggested to the users that we should force all the mail to be stored in EV, thereby giving those users only one PST each, but it wasn't what they wanted ( Users...!! ??)

I also tried to create an additional Mailbox Archiving task, where I could change the shortcut deletion schedule, and apply the task just to selected users, but it seems I can only have one mailbox archiving task per server.

As mentioned, when I attempted to make a 0 day policy, the 'delet shortcuts' checkbox became unchecked, when I save the policy, it also defaulted the minimum shortcut age to one year, which is annoying.

I like the run now option for deleting those shortcuts for selected users, but I'm left with the impression that I cannot achieve this with EV 7.5 SP3....

Does anyone have an observations / comments on changing the Site Schedule in EV 2007 (7.5 SP3), so that I can force an extra run of short cuts deletion?
The docs I've read so far, recommend only running this process once a week, but I'd appreciate some guidance on  forcing the additional run and the perils of doing so.

thanks, EV Novice