Many organisations choose to delay their legacy archive migrations as they are a lot less straightforward compared to live email migrations.

The most widely cited reason is that it simply is not high enough priority or that the daunting and very costly first step of reviewing the archive, deduping etc, still must be undertaken. It can be a laborious process, particularly if you are working with older technologies and multiple formats and platforms, which in

 Our first blog on the complexities of an archive migration covered chain-of-custody.

Email journals present another challenge.

Many organisations maintain a journal archive to meet compliance and business needs.  The journal archive is often a complete record of all emails sent and received within an organisation, although many solutions extend the reach beyond email with the ability to retain many other forms of business communications including Teams, Slack, Yammer etc.

A range of