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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing archive mailboxes


Starting with Exchange 2010, a new personal storage concept was introduced, called an archive mailbox. The idea is that you can give one or more users a secondary mailbox that can be accessed from anywhere, just like their regular mailbox, and it can be used to store older mailbox data, eliminating the need for a PST file. With the release of Exchange 2010 SP1, archive mailboxes can now be located on a database separate from the primary mailbox, allowing administrators to put low-priority, archived mailbox data on an inexpensive lower tier of storage. In this chapter, we'll look at how you can manage archive mailboxes for your users through the Exchange Management Shell.

How to do it...

To create an archive mailbox for an existing mailbox, use the Enable-Mailbox cmdlet, as shown in the following example:

Enable-Mailbox –Identity administrator -Archive

How it works...

When you create an archive mailbox for a user, they can access their personal archive when connecting...