running ev8sp5 on three virtual 2003 servers with ev9 client on XP systems for about 22,000 mailboxes.
We implemented EV to offload message storage from Exchange. No message expiry and client is configured such that deleting a shortcut deletes the archived message as well. Since there is still a perception that email occupies too much storage, our Information Management people have been promoting the idea of deleting messages no longer having significance. Since block deletion is so slow, users are being told how to just get rid of their shortcuts (move to deleted items, empty deleted items) on the expectation that some way will be found to delete the archived messages orphaned by this process.
I have been unable to find anything in the way of a script or other utility that will do that. Has anyone here every done something like that? And, if not, how feasible do you think it would be for a script to be developed to find all messages whose shortcut no longer exists in the related mailbox?
Any and all comments will be greatly appreciated.
