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September 24th, 2008 18:00
Recovering Shortcut Msgs from Centera to Exchange - What to expect?
We've been running with 1500 licenses for 3 years now. We began with EX Archive edition and recently upgraded to full blown journaling last year (EX 4.81.655).
Our parent company would like to leverage many of these licenses for their own Executive mailboxes, rather than purchasing additional licenses. Therefore, a large portion of the 1500 licenses will be transfered to the parent company, leaving a few hundred of my original 1500 remaining in our Archive/Shortcut environment.
My task is to:
Identify current mailboxes that can be removed from EmailXtender Shortcutting and have their mail and attachements pulled back to their Exchange mailboxes from the Centera Storage.
Question: How do I see the amount of mail that will be recovered on a "Per mailbox" basis? Is this possible? As it stands, I am planning on creating a new Exchange SG for this project, moving mailboxes to it, recovering their shortcuts to the mailboxes, working with the users to comply with mailbox size limits, move them out, Delete the SG and recreate it again for the next batch. etc. etc. Without knowing ahead of time I run the risk of recovering several Gig of mail from any mailbox. Not to mention the single instance storage ramifications.
Does anyone know how to examine how much mail or storage space a user is occupying on the Centera? I would think this would be something already available either from EX, DX or Centera.
TIA
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GlennBII
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GlennBII
Our parent company would like to leverage many of these licenses for their own Executive mailboxes, rather than purchasing additional licenses. Therefore, a large portion of the 1500 licenses will be transfered to the parent company, leaving a few hundred of my original 1500 remaining in our Archive/Shortcut environment.
My task is to:
Identify current mailboxes that can be removed from EmailXtender Shortcutting and have their mail and attachements pulled back to their Exchange mailboxes from the Centera Storage.
Question: How do I see the amount of mail that will be recovered on a "Per mailbox" basis? Is this possible? As it stands, I am planning on creating a new Exchange SG for this project, moving mailboxes to it, recovering their shortcuts to the mailboxes, working with the users to comply with mailbox size limits, move them out, Delete the SG and recreate it again for the next batch. etc. etc. Without knowing ahead of time I run the risk of recovering several Gig of mail from any mailbox. Not to mention the single instance storage ramifications.
Does anyone know how to examine how much mail or storage space a user is occupying on the Centera? I would think this would be something already available either from EX, DX or Centera.
TIA
Message was edited by:
GlennBII
Message was edited by:
GlennBII
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RKatwal
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September 25th, 2008 04:00
How about running EmailXtract Shortcut jobs in Simulation mode, that should tell you what would be the size of mailbox on Exchange once emails will be restored back. Start testing with one mailbox and continue to others.
Please make sure mailboxes do not have qouta implumented else they could stop getting new emails.
I usually test it to see the size of mailbox after shortcutting but never tested for restoration process.
Thanks,
Rajan