Exchange Hosted Services   

Just recently started using this service for 1000 user organization. Works 
great except that by the nature of how the service is configured, outbound 
email has doubled, one copy to the recipient and one copy to 
copy.xxxx@archive.frontbridge.com . This in turn has made a big impact on 
internet traffic and performance in general. Before we look into getting a 
larger internet pipe, I was wondering if there is any scheduling options for 
the journaling configuration. We are hoping that maybe off-loading this to 
non-peak hours may help the situation. "Archive all messages sent or received 
by mailboxes on this store" on the mailbox store policies has been checked, 
however, it's here where the only options are on/off. No scheduling is found 
here nor do any scheduling options appear in the server-side rules for the 
internal account all mail is forwarded to. Any help would be appreciated. 
Thanks.

Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
Exchange 2000 SP3
(4) Storage Groups, (4) Mailbox Stores in each one
Store total size is 389 GB.

date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 11:24:02 -0700   author:   Dishon

Re: Exchange Hosted Services   

In news:331ECB79-BBB0-4166-A979-F878A36F2446@microsoft.com,
Dishon  typed:
> Just recently started using this service for 1000 user organization.
> Works great except that by the nature of how the service is
> configured, outbound email has doubled, one copy to the recipient and
> one copy to copy.xxxx@archive.frontbridge.com . This in turn has made
> a big impact on internet traffic and performance in general. Before
> we look into getting a larger internet pipe, I was wondering if there
> is any scheduling options for the journaling configuration. We are
> hoping that maybe off-loading this to non-peak hours may help the
> situation. "Archive all messages sent or received by mailboxes on
> this store" on the mailbox store policies has been checked, however,
> it's here where the only options are on/off. No scheduling is found
> here nor do any scheduling options appear in the server-side rules
> for the internal account all mail is forwarded to. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
> Exchange 2000 SP3
> (4) Storage Groups, (4) Mailbox Stores in each one
> Store total size is 389 GB.

I don't believe there's any scheduling possible - message journaling works 
as the mail is being processed. You might want to look into third party 
archive solutions (see www.quest.com for one) but I'm not sure that you'll 
be able to do much if the server or network isn't entirely controlled by 
you.

That said, if your Exchange server is hosted externally, I'm not sure why 
you'd see any performance hit on your own Internet pipe - isn't all the 
journaling handled at the ISP/host's side, and isn't it *their* connection 
that ought to be affected? You aren't doing anything special for this in 
Outlook, right?

date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:43:05 -0400   author:   Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]