Determining when AutoArchive was last run on an Outlook client...

[Randy]

We need to perform a restore for a user that lost email last time his Outlook
client performed an AutoArchive. Unfortunately the user cannot give us a
specific date. Is there any way that we can tell from the Registry of the
user's machine as to the last AutoArchive date\time?

Thanks

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

You are after the "LastAged" value under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<version
number>\Outlook\Preferences

version number
11.0 = Outlook 2003
10.0 = Outlook 2002
9.0 = Outlook 2000
8.0 = Outlook 97/98

What I don't remember is how Microsoft calculates this value back to a
current date/time. (I want to say it is based on the WIN32 API Filetime
(how long since Jan 1 1601) but can't remember if it seconds or minutes
lapsed from that date.)