Archive command does not remove anything

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steven

We have not tried to archive since installing exchange 2003
Trying to get users in a good habit I put a warning
message to tell people to start archiving to a .pst file
on there local machine, It does not work for any one, this
feature was fine when we used to use microsoft mail with
everyones mail on their own .pst files. We click file then
archive and the icon shows in the lower right corner that
it is doing something but nothing leaves the inbox and no
copies of messages appear in the archive folders. There
are no error messages. It looks like the process has
worked but nothing happends.Clients are outlook 2003,
Server is win2ksp4 with exchange 2003 no sp1 yet.

Need help before users profiles get too large and exceed
therir mail box limit.
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

steven said:
We have not tried to archive since installing exchange 2003
Trying to get users in a good habit I put a warning
message to tell people to start archiving to a .pst file
on there local machine, It does not work for any one, this
feature was fine when we used to use microsoft mail with
everyones mail on their own .pst files. We click file then
archive and the icon shows in the lower right corner that
it is doing something but nothing leaves the inbox and no
copies of messages appear in the archive folders. There
are no error messages. It looks like the process has
worked but nothing happends.Clients are outlook 2003,
Server is win2ksp4 with exchange 2003 no sp1 yet.

Need help before users profiles get too large and exceed
therir mail box limit.
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See
http://www.swinc.com/resources/exch... 5.5&sectionID=1013&sectionName=Why PST = BAD -
if you store the files locally, you really can't support them or back them
up, and if you instead store the PST files on the network, note that this
isn't supported by MS.

It may be time to uprade to Enterprise if you're using Standard, or if it's
just a disk space issue, add another drive on that server & move the
databases there.

OK, back to the point. To address your question - note that archive works on
the date *modified*, not the date you see. Could that be related?
 
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