And indeed, apart from the caveat about Outlook 2010 versions explained below, if you deploy these clients, you will have no problem dealing with archive mailboxes because the clients include all of the necessary user interface and other code required to: Naturally, Microsoft’s perspective is that you should use the latest and greatest clients, meaning Outlook 2010 or Outlook Web App (OWA). One question that has to be answered in any Exchange 2010 or Office 365 deployment project is what clients to use.
People haven’t quite figured out how best to deploy and manage these repositories or whether they provide a better solution for long-term data retention than the third-party products available for Exchange 2010 and earlier versions. I think that this points to a certain lack of familiarity that still exists around archive mailboxes.
My post describing the issues that can arise when you enable an Exchange 2010 mailbox to have an archive is one of the most actively discussed on this blog.
