AutoArchiving and GPO problem

[MILO]

I've got a GPO that applies without a problem to the client, rsop.msc shows
everything is fine. The GPO is configured to autoarchive but it's not
running? I disabled the GPO and configured the same settings on the client
manually and still nothing. I then select file\archive and sure enough
autoarchive ran fine. Why is autoarchiving not running correctly???

Thanx

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

AutoArchive only acts on old items. Maybe all the items are too new?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MILO]

Nope, items are three days old, autoarchive was set to 1 day.

???????

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you check the Modified date?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MILO]

yes

Did you check the Modified date?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Exactly which settings did you deploy with your GPO?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MILO]

Sue:

Hold on a moment, I think you might be on to something with the modified
date. I'm thinking that my AV trend scanmail might be causing a modification
of dates. I've got to do some digging around the backend.

 

[MILO]

I think I've found the problem, it could be my AV but I think it's more like
Veritas backup up the top of the IS. I found the inbox in question has a
PR_Last_Modification_Time of 2006/06/06 22:39.26 looks to be the same time BE
backed up the "Inbox"

So let me toss out the next question. Does AutoArchive look at the items in
a folder individually or does it look at the folder and then the individual
item? Could this time stamp on the folder cause AutoArchiving to fail????

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Because Outlook archives individual items, not folders, it looks at the time stamps on the individual items. I don't think the time stamp on a folder would have any effect.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MILO]

Just for future reference for anyone interested.

AutoArchiving DOES look at folders.

If the folder does not met the rule it stops processing. If the folder does
met the rule it continues processing to the items in the folder.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Thanks for the info!

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers