A Better Way to Migrate - The Case for Archiving Before Migrating to Exchange 2007 from Quest Software UK Computing ITHound

A Better Way to Migrate - The Case for Archiving Before Migrating to Exchange 2007
by Quest Software UK
Published:January 2007
Format: Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Length: 24 pages
Overview

Over the past fifteen years, the use of e-mail has been one of the driving factors for technology growth in business environments.
Although other technologies such as the World Wide Web may be flashier and gather public attention, e-mail has become ubiquitous

To fully appreciate the impact of e-mail on the modern business environment, consider the fact that fifteen years ago, the few existing e-mail systems were highly local, isolated islands of communication usually limited to the internal use of specific departments within a given organization.

Compare that level of support with today’s Internet-driven world. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the only major messaging protocol to be declared as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard; the original protocol specifications have been updated to bring several extensions into the standard. Almost all messaging systems natively support (or provide gateways that translate to) the SMTP standard, which runs over any TCP/IP network connection. TCP/IP and SMTP support are standard offerings for practically every network provider; moving between providers can be done easily with little downtime. While a number of enterprise messaging systems have been used in the business world, in recent years Microsoft Exchange Server has become the number one messaging solution.

However, this success is not pain-free; e-mail’s promotion to a utility-grade service comes with its own obstacles and complications. Exchange administrators face a number of trends and challengesThere’s a lot of press, marketing, and even FUD about e-mail archiving, leaving many messaging administrators in the dark about what archiving is and how it will benefit them.

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