Problem with AutoArchive in Outlook 2003

[Russ80012]

By reviewing the posts in the forum, it appears that there are many problems
surrounding Outlook 2003 and the AUto-archiving function. Here's one more:

I am the Sr. Server Admin for a hospital. We're currently running Exchange
5.5. I have been running Outlook 2003 on a Windows 2000 Pro workstation
without problems for quite some time. I recently built a new XP Pro (SP2)
workstation w/Outlook 2003 in anticipation of upgrading our AD to 2003.

When Archiving is initiated, the status bar in Outlook shows that archiving
has started, then then it prompted stops and goes away without generating any
kind of error. No errors are shown in the event logs either.

If I bring up my old Windows 2000 workstation and run archiving - it all
runs normally and all folders designated for archiving are emptied of email
that has met the archiving dates set for that folder.

I originally thought the problem might be that the .pst folders were all on
a network share so I moved them all down to a local drive and reconfigured
archiving parameters on each folder to reflect the new path to the .pst file.
It still will not work.

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

The autoarchiving function on the XP workstation running Outlook 2003
refuses to run either via a scheduled activity or when run manually.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Maybe there isn't anything old enough to be archived yet?

 

[Russ80012]

There's plenty to be archived. Please refer to my original post .... "If I
bring up my old Windows 2000 workstation and run archiving - it all runs
normally...."

The last time I ran archiving from my Win2k Workstation (yesterday), my
mailbox size was reduced from 109 Mb to 70 Mb. It appears there was mail old
enough to be archived.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Do you have different archive settings on different archive folders or just
default settings? Are the archive default settings in Tools | Options |
Other | AutoArchive the same on both machines?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Russ80012]

Each folder in my Outlook mailbox has individual archive settings (which are
kept globally on the Exchange server). Each machine has been set up the same
insofar as the autoarchive settings are concerned; i.e., to autoarchive
according to each folder's individual settings every 3 days.