Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Few words about archiving server

To follow compliance regulations, you may want to deploy Archiving Server to enable archiving support for Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Lync Archiving Server archives instant messaging (IM) and web conferencing info.

You can configure archiving for a user or site. You can decide if you want to archive internal communications or external communications, or both. Also, you have options to archive IM and Web conferencing data, or IM only.

Archiving Policies

Global archiving policy: This is the default policy.it gets created when you deploy Archiving Server. The global policy applies to all users and sites in your deployment. In the global policy you specify whether to enable archiving of internal communications, external communications, or both.

Site archiving policy: You can enable or disable archiving support for specific sites.

User archiving policy: You can enable or disable archiving support for specific users by assigning the policies to users that are defined in Users

Purge Mode

By default, purging is not enabled. You can specify whether to purge the archives of data. If you enable purging of archiving data, you must specify one of the following options:

Purge both exported archiving data and stored archiving data after a specific number of days. The value can be anything between 1 day to 2562 days.

Purge exported archiving data only. This option purges all records that have been exported and marked as safe to delete.

The Archiving agents

Agents are installed and activated automatically on every Front End Server and Standard Edition server. The agents capture messages for archiving and send them to the destination queue on the Archiving Server. Although agents are activated automatically, no messages are actually captured unless an Archiving Server is deployed and associated with that Front End pool or Standard Edition server and archiving is enabled. You can enable archiving at the global level, at a site level, or for specific users.

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Ram K Ojha

(MCSE, MCTS - LCS 2005, MCTS - OCS 2007, MCTS - U.C. Voice Specialization)

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