How to create an Exchange Mailbox Content and Attachments gathering? (4318958)

The Content and Attachments gathering tasks collect information about the email content and attachments in your Exchange organization.

Note: These gatherings can consume a large amount of processing capacity and memory to gather data, and use a large amount of database space to store data. It is recommended that you select 10 mailboxes or less. If you select more than 10 mailboxes, performance can be seriously affected and the MessageStats database can grow substantially. The average recommended mailbox size is 200 MB. If you want to select more than 10 mailboxes, it is recommended that you create the gathering with batches of 5-10 mailboxes.

Note: The account which is used to run a Content and Attachments Mailbox gathering must have Full Mailbox Access to the specific mailbox or to all mailboxes from which you want to gather the content and attachment information.

To create an Exchange Mailbox Content and Attachments gathering:

1. Expand the Exchange Organizations node and select a server
2. Right-click the server and select Create Task
3. Select Exchange Mailbox Content and Attachment Gathering from the list and enter a unique name for the task
4. Complete the Task Execution Server, Task Schedule, Task Logging, and Task Credentials information, clicking Next after each page
5. Browse the tree to find the appropriate server
6. Browse to find the appropriate mailboxes, and select the items
7. Click Next
8. Select an option to indicate if you want to gather all content, content matching the filter or no content
9. Click Next
10. Select an option to indicate if you want to gather all attachments, attachments matching the filter, or no attachments
11. Click Next
12. For Exchange 2010, you can specify a Client Access Server (CAS) for the gathering if you do not want to use the CAS that was specified for the organization
13. Click Next and click Finish