I have some questions about securing journaling mailboxes in Exchange 2007. Should a journaling mailbox be tied to a disabled Windows account? Is there any reason to leave the account enabled? Obviously I don't want anyone logging in as the journaling user. If I need to give someone access to a journaling mailbox, is there a way to do it so that they have read-only access? We obviously cannot write this to worm media, so I need to know the best approach for securing this data to meet various compliance requirements. Lastly, if I only want to keep mail in the journaling mailbox for 3 years, is it as simple as just applying a mailbox policy to the journaling mailbox's inbox? Thank you.

How big do you think this mailbox will get retaining three years' worth of data? -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Dan112233" wrote in message news:781f6d72-9e10-4517-8878-bb82575f6dea... I have some questions about securing journaling mailboxes in Exchange 2007. Should a journaling mailbox be tied to a disabled Windows account? Is there any reason to leave the account enabled? Obviously I don't want anyone logging in as the journaling user. If I need to give someone access to a journaling mailbox, is there a way to do it so that they have read-only access? We obviously cannot write this to worm media, so I need to know the best approach for securing this data to meet various compliance requirements. Secondly, if I only want to keep mail in the journaling mailbox for 3 years, is it as simple as just applying a mailbox policy to the journaling mailbox's inbox? Thank you. Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Roughly 90GB at current rates, but I expect that ti increase as emails get bigger and bigger by the day.

That's an awfully large mailbox. You're going to have a very hard time making use of it. You might want to rethink that strategy. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Dan112233" wrote in message news:d87ae9a9-c370-42c6-af5a-40706d8952b5... Roughly 90GB at current rates, but I expect that ti increase as emails get bigger and bigger by the day.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

If you have any suggestions, I'm open, but with the amount of mail we receive, that's just what it's going to be.

You might want to look into a third-party archiving solution. Some of them take the data out of the journaling mailbox and put it in their own system, others work differently. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Dan112233" wrote in message news:f1444c55-e003-42a7-879b-8dd5f34cc254... If you have any suggestions, I'm open, but with the amount of mail we receive, that's just what it's going to be.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."