Hello,

We have EV8SP5 with mainly Outlook 2003 clients. About 4000 mailboxes enabled for archiving since 1-2 years. Up to now, we never deleted user shortcuts. We need to start doing that now because most users have accumulated a few thousand shortcuts each.

99% of the users are in the same default archiving policy. If we enable the policy option to delete shortcuts, e.g., after one year, what kind of performance hit will we take? Will the shortcuts only be deleted during the archiving run (currently 10pm - 2am)? Is EV clever enough to throttle the work over a few days? Will it stop archiving mailboxes while shortcuts are being deleted?

Thanks for any advice,

- Alan.