Re: How To Determine Age of Oldest Message in Private Information Stor

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"Brian Kronberg" <brian.kronberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is rediculously hard to find, and even worst as a repeatable
process. If you need to have this I would highly recommend a mail
archive solution like Symantec Enterprise Vault matched with a mailbox
management process to delete all mail over 6 months (or some value).
If you have to deal with regulatory compliance than you should just
pony up for a mail archival solution now. It more than pays for itself
during your first discovery.


You could do it via trial and error using Exmerge - only get it to exmerge
out (say) emails older than 5 years, then look at the amount of PST files
produced with data in them (>32kbytes) to get a date. If you dont' get any,
try 4 years etc etc

But v.cumbersome...

I assume this is something to do with database sizes - perhaps total size
per user is a better indicator and the driver for having sensible limits is
to guarantee restore time.


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