Contents 

What is journaling? 1

Envelope versus standard 2

Message size limit 2

Journaling prerequisites 2

Set up journaling process 2

Enable advanced journaling configuration mode (envelope journaling) 3

Create new mailbox store for the journaling mailbox 4

Create a custom recipient (contact) 8

Create journaling user mailbox 14

Set up server side forwarding rule on journaling mailbox using OWA 18

Create an SMTP connector 19

Activate journaling 28

Clean the journal recipient mailbox 31

Schedule mailbox manager to run recipient policies 37

Disable NDRs (non-delivery reports) 39

Add SMTP queue growth monitoring alert 41

Troubleshooting tips 45

Journaling best practices 47

Remove Exchange 2003 envelope journaling setup 48

Removing SMTP growth alert 48

Remove Internet message formats domain 52

Turn off mailbox management schedule 53

Remove the mailbox management policy for cleaning the journaling mailbox 55

Deactivate journaling 56

Remove the journaling SMTP connector 59

Remove the journaling mailbox from active directory 61

Remove the journaling contact from active directory 62

Remove the extra mailbox store 64

Turn off advanced journaling configuration 66