User communication has probably been our biggest problem, essentially hand-holding them through the process "No User, your PST didn't magically disappear, see here the 10 messages we sent you that we were moving your PST into the archive ? No ? well, here's how you access it now" - LOT of that sort of thing.
One minor annoyance is the backup system. We have been looking into some issues with backing up the KVS data stores. Since the message content is essentially stored on NTFS volumes (if your not using something like an EMC Centera back-end), we are having some issues processing the millions of small files during the backup window. The large databases are ok, its the 10 million 60k files that its having issues with.
Client access to content is incredibly fast - we have one vault with about 163gb of mail in it, something like 2.5 million items, and a KVS search of this takes under 2 seconds.
The default website could use some work, we took the easy way out initially and just "rebranded" the website with the corporate logos etc. Searches for example cant be sorted in the web interface, but can in Archive Explorer. The Archive Explorer interface is a nicer way to view the vault, however some of the user population have been confused as AE "looks" like Outlook, but doesnt operate in quite the same way. They have tried to do outlooky things in AE, and been upset when it hasnt worked.
Havent played with the offline vault stuff yet, we mainly use citrix for mobile computing.
The EVPM interface for management of KVS is most useful, although we have had to do a bit of scripting and coding around producing the INI-style data format it wants as input files.
All of that being said, the organisation is most happy with KVS, and we will be moving onto the KVS File Archiving part soonish.
If you want any detailed information (hardware etc) just shoot me an email.
Glenn
Bahta Nathaniel V Contr NASIC/SCNA wrote:
I am looking at the KVS solution for our organization. At the previous
organization I supported we used the KVS and from what I could tell there
were few hiccups. We are over a Terabyte in PST storage usage so we need a
solution. Does anyone have any good/bad info about the KVS archiving
system?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Missy Koslosky Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 12:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems
Absolutely. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Kingslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 12:41 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems
:o)
Good to hear from you, Missy. Even if it was meant to be a private message to Deji.
Keep in touch, would you?
Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT, CISSP Microsoft MVP: Windows Server / Directory Services Windows Server / Rights Management Windows Security (Affiliate) Associate Expert Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone WebLog - www.msmvps.com/willhack4food
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Missy Koslosky Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems
Whoops.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Missy Koslosky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems
Hey Deji,
Read your post with interest. Don't know if you've heard or not, but I joined Quest Software as a product manager in their Exchange Solutions group earlier this year. Archive Manager, our archiving product, is my responsibility.
This naturally means I'm always interested in competitive information, and on what people want to see that they're not seeing - what you love and hate. If you'd ever like to spill your guts (and I shan't quote you), I'd love to hear what you have to say.
Hope all is well and that we'll get to see each other at the Summit -- or maybe even TechEd -- are you going to either? both?
Best,
Missy
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:40 PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems
I can only speak to KVS, and I can not say what I think of them in such a decorous forum.
If you do get to speak with them in the course of your evaluation (you are going to do a thorough eval, right?), be sure to ask them what happens if you run out of room on a vault and you want your users to clean out their items to make more room. Remember to ask what happens when you are doing hardware refresh and you need your users to move stuff from their offline vault on their old computers to their offline vault on their new computer. Remember to ask them about the "unique" behavior of the online vault when you need to replace the vault itself or when you want to add additional vaults and split your users across multiple vaults.
I'm out of here.
Sincerely,
D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Carerros, Charles Sent: Fri 5/6/2005 12:03 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: e-mail archiving systems
My company is currently review some archiving apps and I was wondering if anyone has any news to share (good or bad on them) excusing my spelling if I get them wrong.
KVS (from Veritas) Convault Legato Mail Extender\File Extender
Thanks,
Charlie
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