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Listen to the Email archiving FAQ audiocast here.
Go back to the beginning of the Email Archiving FAQ Guide.
This was first published in October 2006
If you plan to migrate your email to a newer version, should you wait to adopt an archiving system?
That's a question that we get quite a bit -- people wonder if they need to wait to look at email archiving before they move to a new version of their email system. The answer is really "no." It's a much better idea to fully implement the current email archiving system before migrating to a newer version.
It's a matter of performance. When you create an email archive, you're moving a lot of the email content off email servers and onto archive servers. If that's already in place, when you migrate (e.g., from Microsoft Exchange 2000 to 2003) you generally have a lot less content on the email server that you need to migrate. This makes the migration process faster and less disruptive.