Tara, Can highly recommend KVS. Have implemented it in a number of sites, works like a charm.
- Client integration is good (although it does require a small client to be insalled on user workstations). - Messages are archived from Exchange into the KVS system, and a stub (kvs use the term shortcut) can be left to the original mail message. Users simply open it to read. - The searching interface is very good, and can be customised any way you like (its essentially ASP) - The compliance features are excellent (if you need that sort of thing). You can simply enable the Exchange Journal, and KVS can automatically archive that into its system. - The level of archiving and data retention in users mailboxes can be customised. You can just leave the basic information (sender, recipients, subject), up to including links to attachments, and X characters from the original email. - Retention policies can be set allowing retention from say 3 months up to 99999 years. You can either allow users to select an archiving policy to use, or lock it down and let the sys admins decide. - KVS can import user PST's directly into the users vault (their KVS archive), and optionally put shortcuts back into their Exchange mailbox. This really allows you to get rid of the PST "problem" reasonably quickly, and eventually even disable the ability to create PST's in the first place. Some of the other solutions (like aftermail) provide a level of archiving, but don't really resolve the large mailboxes (it archives from the journal, but relies on users to clean up their mailboxes to remain under quotas). Depends how much work / thought you need your users to have in managing their email. Other ones to possibly look at are RISS (HP's archiving solution). As others have said, it depends on wether you want a self-managed solution, or an appliance based, or hosted solution. Some of the products require higher levels of integration with Exchange to provide functionality (such as KVS). Some products, like RISS and KVS, can also archive additional data types, such as documents, file systems, sharepoint, public folders etc. Depends what your needs are in the long term as well. FWIW, I'm not affiliated with any company providing archiving solutions. HTH Glenn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephens, Tara Sent: Friday, 8 July 2005 4:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Archival Solutions I've been tasked with finding an archival solution for email. Knowing that "PST's are bad" and they eat up all of our disk space, it's something that is long overdue. I didn't see any long threads hashing out which is the best (like there have been with AV and Backup solutions). What product are you using for this? Has anyone had any experience with QiNetix DataArchiver or ZipLip? We have a single e2k site with about 5 servers and 1000 mailboxes. TIA _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
