Exchange email archival?

bremen1874 · 17 Apr 2010 at 05:40

I've got a site with about 15 users using Exchange on SBS 2003.

They recently received a sales email advertising MailStore Archiver for Exchange, and they’ve now decided that they’d like to have an email archival system.

I’m trying to draw up a short list of options that are worth trialling. Any suggestions about what’s good, or more importantly bad, would be appreciated.

bremen1874 · 17 Apr 2010 at 19:56

Thanks for the suggestions, I have a starting point at least.

Mailarchiver is RUBBISH!

Is this a reference to GFI? Are there specific issues worth looking out for?

bremen1874 · 20 Apr 2010 at 13:30

I would recommend buying more hard drive space for the exchange server and not archiving at all.

This is effectively the situation I'm in.

With the very small number of users the overall storage requirements are never going to be a problem.

I'm more concerned with the size of individual mailboxes. I've got some users (management so you can't slap them) that regularly have 3GB+ in use.

There's presumably a point where performance will start to suffer? Unfortunately I haven't got any real idea about what that point would be.

bremen1874 · 21 Apr 2010 at 04:02

3GB, we have people that have 12+GB

Would I be correct in assuming that the number of items matters more than the overall size? (from a performance point-of-view).