Re: Space-Storage-Degradation

Thanks for the feedback.
Win2003 Standard
E2K3 Enterprise

I am running an "archiving" server -that is, another E2K3 server that
captures a copy of every message that traverses exchange-
"Journaling" but, that's a different kettle of fish.

I already sold it to the "hands that signs the checks" and it is a go ahead.
I also know that it will be major $$$$$$ but I just want the right one.
Are you uaing any of these products?

Thanks

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ferg <ferg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
G'Day All:

I am trying to locate and purchase a solution that really works. Here
is the ongoing problem:

End users are using their Exchange Mailbox as a document
management/storage system. They hoard every email and attachment,
sometimes for years. Naturally my Mailbox and IS is growing, the
backups are taking way too long.

Even when you implement an archive system, I think you probably still
ought to have mailbox quotas.

I can see some degradation in the
performance of the Exchange server. They rebel against mailbox limits

Yep....but make sure that you explain to the business owners how much it
will cost to store all this data (wherever it lives), and how long it
takes to do backups & restore times. Perhaps there will then be a mandate
from upon high. You also don't mention whether you're running E2k Standard
or Enterprise, but in Enterprise, you can have multiple stores/storage
groups, which can help a lot. Also.... could be upgrade time; E2k is out
of mainstream support now.

and are not savy enough to manage PST's.

That's a Good Thing. PST files are not in any sense 'manageable' on a
network and are best avoided.
See
http://www.exchangefaq.org/faq/Exchange-5.5/Why-PST-=-BAD-/q/Why-PST-=-BAD/qid/1209


I am looking for a solution --Microsoft or Third party-- where the
emails and attachments are migrated/extracted out of exchange but are
still available for easy access. This migration/extraction could be
to a separate server/storage but with a "stub" in the InBox that
takes the user to the migrated/extracted email(s) and attachment(s)
if they were to double-click on the stub.

This problem is fast growing and is global and every email will face
this sooner or later.

It appears that Microsoft does not have such a solution to handle this
phenomenon. There are third party applications that claims to do
what I described above. Does Microsoft have any particular
recommendation(s) to deal with this problem? Can you "guys", ladies
and gentlemen, recommend something?

Thanks

There are many enterprise archive solutions out there that will do what
you wish - Symantec (née Veritas), Quest, GFI.....you might post a request
for product reviews & recommendations in m.p.exchange.admin, which gets a
lot more traffic than this group does.






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