Journaling

The first journaling features built into Exchange were rudimentary and focused on the simple capture of messages delivered to target mailboxes or databases so that they could be examined later if deemed necessary. This kind of journaling is known as message-only journaling. Exchange 2007 introduced a more comprehensive kind of journaling known as envelope journaling, which captures all the information contained in message envelopes along with the message body. Envelope journaling data includes details of all recipients, including Bcc recipients and members of distribution groups.

Exchange journaling is simple to understand. When you enable it, the journaling agent (which runs on every Mailbox server in the organization) copies all messages ...

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