Who makes better archiving solution?

[Rick Csucsai]

Can anyone suggest an archiving solution that would archive the email but
from the users perspective, the individual emails would still be sitting in
the inbox. I want to accomplish two things:

1.) The archived email will will remain in the individuals inbox, not a
seperate archive folder. It will in fact be archived off of the exchange
server just transparent to the user.

2.) The user should be able to use the find function within outlook but be
able to search the inbox alone for email regardless of the fact that email
in there will be in a seperate location thanks to the archive solution.

The problem I am having is we have users, many, with mail boxes in excess of
2gb. Most of them VP's. With the current archiving functionality they find
it cumbersome to have to search for email in multiple locations (i.e. Inbox
and then PST files).

Any ideas? I am sure someone makes software like this, I just am not aware
of who is the best at it since I have never has such un organized, heavily
dependant email users.

Thanks

 

[Brian Tillman]

Can anyone suggest an archiving solution that would archive the email
but from the users perspective, the individual emails would still be
sitting in the inbox. I want to accomplish two things:

1.) The archived email will will remain in the individuals inbox, not
a seperate archive folder. It will in fact be archived off of the
exchange server just transparent to the user.

I have never heard of any product that would interface with Exchange that
deeply. I think you have a hopeless search ahead of you.

The problem I am having is we have users, many, with mail boxes in
excess of 2gb. Most of them VP's. With the current archiving
functionality they find it cumbersome to have to search for email in
multiple locations (i.e. Inbox and then PST files).

Lookout or Google Desktop Search makes finding mail in multiple PSTs quite
easy.

Any ideas? I am sure someone makes software like this, I just am not
aware of who is the best at it since I have never has such un
organized, heavily dependant email users.

What makes you so sure thee is software like that? SInce Exchange is a
product of Microsoft and what you describe as being requirements would have
to have intimate knowledge of the internals of Exchange and Outlook, I'd be
highly surprised if a company other than Microsoft would offer it.

 

[Dan Wilson]

Rick;

I work for a company called Ubitech, we recently deployed an email
archiving solution from a company called NorthSeas you offer an email
archiving appliance. I'm not sure about your first requirement but
it sounds pretty similar to the issue we needed addressed. We were
running into email storage issues and our users were complaining about
lost email and wasting time backing up their email. The appliance sits
in front of the mail server and captures every message that is sent or
received in real time, before it has reached your mail server. This
way, there is no risk of a message being lost before it is archived and
users don't have to do anything for their mail to be archived.
As for the second requirement- the appliance has a web interface for
searching for email and redelivering it back into a users inbox. Most
of our users have their outlook client setup so that the search
application is imbedded within outlook so they can search for old
email, view it on the archive and then if they want to do anything with
it, they click on a button and then it will be redelivered to them.
There's no risk of losing email, users don't have to worry about
managing their email because they can always get it again from the
archive. If you want more info, I believe their website is
www.northseasamt.com