Is there a best practice paper on setting up Journaling in a mixed Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 environment? We have 90% of our users on Exchange 2007 along with 90% of our Journal Rules on Exchange 2007. Now that we are moving users to Exchange 2010 it looks like the Exchange 2007 journaling rules are not capturing everything. Looks like I need to create the Journal Rules in both? places but just want to read a best practice or guideline document. We are a 18K mailbox shop, thanks for any info. JasonJason Meyer

Hi Jason, If you only want to journaling emails for users, I think you can just enable journaling on the databases. This way you no need to create journal rule for every mailbox and when you enable journaling for databases on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, you no need to worry when mailboxes move, whether journaling rule will work or not. Enable Per-Mailbox Database Journaling http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123817.aspx Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

I wish it were that easy Evan. We do not journal everyone's mail, just a small subset, currently we have about 45 different journal rules setup, some are for 1 individual and some are for 3000 individuals. What is interesting is about 30 of them are already on our Exchange 2010 servers, not sure how they got there. We are in the process of manually creating the remaining 15 which isn't hard but I don't find any reason why some were there automatically and some are not. JasonJason Meyer

Hello Jason, When you install the first Exchange 2010 Hub Transport server in an Exchange 2007 environment, Setup creates a new container for Exchange 2010 journal rules, converts all Exchange 2007 journal rules to the Exchange 2010 format, and stores them in this new container in Active Directory. After Setup completes, the Exchange 2010 journal rule collection is identical to the Exchange 2007 journal rule collection. The same journal rules are applied to messages at the first Hub Transport server that handles the messages, regardless of whether it's running Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007. For your issue, i think you can follow this document manually export and import the journaling rules to Exchange 2010 Export and Import Exchange 2007 Journal Rules http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ee633488(v=exchg.140).aspx Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

Hello Jason, When you install the first Exchange 2010 Hub Transport server in an Exchange 2007 environment, Setup creates a new container for Exchange 2010 journal rules, converts all Exchange 2007 journal rules to the Exchange 2010 format, and stores them in this new container in Active Directory. After Setup completes, the Exchange 2010 journal rule collection is identical to the Exchange 2007 journal rule collection. The same journal rules are applied to messages at the first Hub Transport server that handles the messages, regardless of whether it's running Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007. For your issue, i think you can follow this document manually export and import the journaling rules to Exchange 2010 Export and Import Exchange 2007 Journal Rules http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/ee633488(v=exchg.140).aspx Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

Hi, How about the issue, any updates? Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

Thanks for explaining that at installation time Exchange 2010 copies what is in place on Exchange 2007. We were not sure how those rules got there. We have since added all of the rules that we have created since installation on both Exchange 2010 and 2007 and will continue to do so until our 2007 environment is decommissioned. JasonJason Meyer

Hi, You also can try to export rules from Exchange 2007, then import to Exchange 2010. Thanks, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support

Thanks Evan, we saw that option but was a little nervous in importing the rules. We have some that journal 4'000 users worth of e-mail and felt more comfortable just manually creating them. It's a done deal now and all appears to be working well. Nice that Exchange 2010 warns about 2007 servers being in existance, would have been nice to just have them created/managed from one location, but understand there is probably some technical reason why they are not. Thanks for the input!!!Jason Meyer

Thanks Evan, we saw that option but was a little nervous in importing the rules. We have some that journal 4'000 users worth of e-mail and felt more comfortable just manually creating them. It's a done deal now and all appears to be working well. Nice that Exchange 2010 warns about 2007 servers being in existance, would have been nice to just have them created/managed from one location, but understand there is probably some technical reason why they are not. Thanks for the input!!!Jason Meyer

Since everything is working now. I will go to close the thread, if you still have any question on this issue, you can reopen the thread. Thanks for your understanding. Best Regards, Evan Liu TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Evan Liu TechNet Community Support