Saturday, December 31, 2016
Tech Review – GFI Mail Archiver
Tech Review – GFI Mail Archiver
Keeping every incoming and outgoing piece of mail indefinitely can take up a good chunk of storage. If you’re running your main mail system on server class hardware or even a SAN, as we know that business-class storage is costlier. Organizations store files in addition to daily correspondence in their email systems, storage needs for mail systems have drastically increased in the last years. E-mail has grown from communication mode to preferred medium of Information Storage for users. This has resulted in Organizations using Archiving & Journaling features to fulfill compliance requirements of Organization/Company policies like SOX etc, apart from fighting Quota restrictions and PST issue’s
There are plenty of expensive Mail archiving solutions out there and maybe some of those will meet your needs better than a less expensive solution, but don’t let this dissuade you from implementing a mail archiving solution. GFI Mail Archiver is a simple mail archiving solution for Exchange Server environments. It allows businesses to maintain a centralized archive of all their email communications, with web-based administration and end user access as well as Outlook integration
Before going to my Review Please check the Review by Mr. Azzopardi,(one of the legend in Admin related Stuffs)
According to Mr. Azzopardi, the purpose of Mail Archiver is to reduce risks related to regulatory compliance issues and E-discovery requirements. In addition, Mr. Azzopardi stated that the software will eliminate the use of local PST files or stub files when archiving email. It can also improve the performance of your Exchange server by moving old emails to a database. It is recommended that GFI MailArchiver be installed on a server other than the Exchange server or whatever mail server is being used so that the performance of the mail server is not affected.
MY Review
Installation on my scenario:
You can download a trial of GFI MailArchiver .Click Here here.
Note: please check prerequisite details. Here: http://www.gfi.com/mailarchiver/mar2011gsgmanual.pdf
Windows Server 2008 R2 server with SQL Server 2008 installed on it.
