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I am discovering that many IT Professionals and Business Managers, when making purchasing decisions are not aware that that Office Pro Plus is required for Outlook-based access to Exchange 2010 Personal Archives. 

Exchange Personal Archives cannot be accessed from Outlook installed via Office 2010 Standard Edition.

If you have already purchased, or are considering the purchase of the Exchange Enterprise CAL and have deployed Office Standard to your end users, the “Integrated Archiving” feature cannot be used within Outlook. Users can access Personal Archives via Outlook Web App (which does not require Office Pro Plus) as well as an updated Outlook 2007 client with reduced functionality.

For more information on Office licensing requirements related to Personal Archives, see License requirements for Personal Archive and retention policies: http://office.com/redir/HA102576659