I need to enforce a default for mailbox archiving in our system. (SBS 2003 Premium)

 

I have found administrative templates for Office XP (which we are currently using). Upgrading to Office 2003 is not an option at this point, nor for some time.

 

Ok now what I want to acheive is this:

Allow users access to have a current Mailbox and an Archive Mailbox. Current in these terms being anything younger than 90days. The archive containing anything that is older than 90days but is not in the Deleted Items bucket (those I want to delete).

 

To this end:

I have set the Mailbox Manager to run through Sent Items and Deleted Items moving Items to Deleted Items and this is working fine. Although it does not allow me to force archival in other mailbox folders (I will mention System Cleanup Folders later on). So I thought that the way to go would be with Retention Policies & Archive policies (using GPO's OUTLK10.ADM & OFFICE10.ADM) this on the face of it is perfect and would be what I want to enforce however...Now I found KB article Q321907 "E-mail retention policies do not work after you apply them in Outlook 2002"

 

The suggested solution to Q321907 seems to be dont try to do this. Which is a bit crap to say the least.

 

So I have 3 questions:

1) Does any  one know if Q321907 is still a problem or an issue?

2) Any other ideas on how to enforce Archival policies?

3) If I use System the "move to System Cleanup..." selection in Recipient policies can I have more than policy defined such that I have 1 policy that moves the items in 'All other mail folder' to the System Cleanup, and an additional policy that empties the Deleted Item buckets? I read in the documentation that you can only have 1 mailbox management policy hence my question.

 

I think this sets out my case. Can anyone help please?

 

Thanks,

Paul