Hello,

We have EmailXtender 4.81.564 with Centera as backend storage and single Exchange 2003 SP2 as source mailbox server. We're trying to determine what is the most cost effective option to move away from this product. Looks like we have no choice but spending $30K+(Just for migrating) to migrate old email archive to either SourceOne or any other Email archive systems (Symantec EV and etc...). Unfortunately our management doesn't want to spend a penny on migration and start fresh with new archiving software (non-EMC). They don't mind losing last 7 years of email journal and good portion of user emails. I'm doing my best to justify why we shouldn't be pursuing that option. At this point, they are willing to take the risk of not having last 7 years of historical emails and ready to make an announcement to all user communities that some user will lose some emails as consequence. Before we do this I'd like to make sure a few things. My questions are;

• I have good understanding of how journal works but unable to identify which mail boxes are being archived by how. Is there a place where I can find a list of archived mailboxes and related archiving policies?
• Is there a way to re-import user mailbox archive back to the Exchange mailbox to eliminate the shortcuts?
• EmailXtender is being the biggest hurdle for upgrading it to the newer technologies such as Exchange 2010/2013... Is it possible to co-exist with 2010/2013?
• What if we uninstall EmailXtender completely (without migrating email archive), what will happened to all existing short-cuts? Will we encounter an issue when we try to migrate mailbox to the new Exchange server (2010/2013)?
• Is there anything else that we should be aware of(technical perspective) after uninstalling EmailXtender?

Thank you in advance for all your help!