E-Mail Arciving solution.

[Duran]

Hello,

I am looking to implement an e-mail archiving solution at my place. I was thinking about using GFI, but I was interested in finding out what other people use and what you honestly think about it regarding set up and general usage of the products you have.

Basically, I have after some honest opinions, rather than 'our product is great' sales babble.

Any opinions and thoughts would be valued.

Kind regards,
D.

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[ntinlin]

Perhaps best to define what you want from an archiving solution?

e.g.
Archiving only mail going forward
Needs to pull in historical mail
Auditing
Outlook Integration
Web usage
Stubbing

Neill

 

[Duran]

Hi Neil, thanks for replying. Yes it will be going forward, I also need to import e-mail from a load of .pst files before it get out of control, I really want to set a policy that anything of, say 7 months old, will get archived, and give the users the ability to retrieve them if they wish and perhaps search via a we interface, which is what attracted me to GFI originally, but I wonder if there is better products out there. Auditing would be handy I guess, I dont really want anything that pugs itself right into exchange as I can imagine there being problems with that somewhere down the line, I prefer to keep it as separate as possible. What is stubbing?

Regards,
D.

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[58sniper]

Enterprise Vault will let you do all of that. I like their product over the GFI solution because they still use the Outlook interface to view archived items. Same with Outlook Web Access as well.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[Zelandakh]

Enterprise Vault is great. GFi Archiver is good but is MUCH cheaper. Is it even cheaper just to get bigger hard drives? How much info are you talking about anyway?

 

[Duran]

Hello,

Thanks again for your replies. Im not sure how much info will be archived, I havnt been here that long, but there is an awful lot of PST files around and a lot of them are closing in on 1Gb. The PST often do not back up, and people are finding it confusing when they have to look back and find e-mails from last year etc.

Regards,
D.

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[58sniper]

and people are finding it confusing when they have to look back and find e-mails from last year etc.

If that's the case, the GFI solution isn't going to alleviate that, since they have to look in the GFI GUI to find items in that archive.

You can either add space to the server and allow them bigger mailboxes, or use an integrated solution such as Enterprise Vault.

Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP

 

[SeanFlynn]

You may want to look at Mimosa NearPoint as well. I was a strong backer of Enterprise Vault for about three years until I saw Mimosa in action. Mimosa does not rely on MAPI for archiving, nor does it rely on journaling for it's Discovery piece. There are many other architectural difference as well, too numerous to type here. Check it out, may be worth your time.

John Price

http://www.learnITstuff.com

 

[Duran]

Thank you for your reply, I will look into the Mimosa Nearpoint option. The Symantec solution is out anyway, its just too darn expensive!

Regards,
D.

I plug you in, dim the lights,
Electric Barbarella !