Exchange 2007 Journaling Guide > Journaling Best Practices

Journaling Best Practices

Contact Archiving Support if you make any changes to your host provider or upgrade your Exchange Server. You will be provided new setup instructions to update your journaling configuration.

Monitor your Exchange Server for issues.

When adding or deleting a user mailbox on your Exchange Server, make sure you also update that user in the Archive Administration tab.

Make sure you hide the journal recipient(s) from your Global Address List (GAL).

Envelope Journaling using journaling rules

When journaling rules are implemented under the Hub transport, exchange transport agent is executed first and can conflict with messages being archive (if there's transport rules to drop messages). You need to set the journaling agent as first priority using the steps below. Once this is set even messages that are meant to drop will be archived.

Open EMS.

Set-transport agent: identity is "journaling agent," priority is "1".

Restart services (services.msc) for MSExchangeTransport or via a Command window by typing net stop msexchangetransport & net start msexchangetransport.

I want to journal all messages on my Exchange server, but do not want to enable journaling on each mailbox store.

Create a new journaling rule, seen in the figure below.

On Send journal reports to e-mail address, click Browse to select a contact.

Select Global – all messages.

Ensure the Journal messages for recipient option is deselected. Selecting this will journal all messages for all users for the entire Organization.

Verify the journaling mailbox is set to allow mail only from Microsoft Exchange and Authenticated Senders Only.

Set-Mailbox <Journal Mailbox Name> -AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom "Microsoft Exchange" –RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled:$true

Exchange 2007 Journaling Guide > Journaling Best Practices