Archiving Administration

This section reviews common administration tasks for the Lync Server 2013 Archiving role, including Data Export and Purge Mode.

In general, there isn’t much day-to-day administration of the Lync Server 2013 Archiving Server role. Instead, this section focuses on the management of data stored in the Archiving database.

One of the most common tasks you perform against the Archiving Server is exporting content from the Archive database. This is performed through the Lync Server Management Shell using the Export-CsArchivingData cmdlet as follows:

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Export-CsArchivingData -DBInstance SQLSRV -StartDate 05/15/2012 -OutputFolder
"C:Archiving" -UserUri [email protected]

This command exports all sessions pertaining to the UserURI defined in the cmdlet. The output is a series of .eml files that are created in the OutputFolder path.