Installation Question

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  Hi,
  
  Yes, it can be installed on a separate server, as long as it's got MAPI installed (either because you've installed Outlook, or the Microsoft Standalone MAPI client).
  
  As we've mentioned on the download topic, we wouldn't recommend you run the Beta version against your production server (just in case!), but there is a guide to setting up a test system if you don't have one already.
  
  Do let us know if you have any questions, problems or suggestions.
  
  Regards,
  Robert

  Robert C January 20, 2009 11:42

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  Well it seems to be a great little product, though I am wondering a few things:
  
  1. can it be scalled up to work on growing networks; if not at which point should a company be looking at using Symantec's or EMC's email archiving system?
  
  2. does it do any encryption on the archive? Even though we have under 100 users ourself, only 45 of them are empolyees the rest are test, log, and support accounts. Some of the users are well into the 2GB size in their mailboxes are doing the dreaded "create an offline folder and move their old emails over to it". So even I am sure we'll fill up a 500GB HD pretty fast if the data is uncompressed.
  
  3. outlook anywhere support would be nice if it's allowed. the sales force uses notebook computers but it would be nice to see (if its not already in the plan) a exchange cache tool like EMC's that caches the users archive to their machine so that when they are on the road and nowhere were there is internet they can grab an archived email from their system.

  firstcoverage January 20, 2009 12:55

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  Hi Andrew,
  

  firstcoverage wrote:

  1. can it be scalled up to work on growing networks; if not at which point should a company be looking at using Symantec's or EMC's email archiving system?

  
  We've been testing on systems up to about 40,000 users, so you should be fine for a while! :-)
  
  On a more serious note, we have designed everything to be able to scale-out - you can have any number of archive services, storage services, and UAA services, and spread the load between them. As your network grows, you can just add more servers if and when you need them.
  

  2. does it do any encryption on the archive? Even though we have under 100 users ourself, only 45 of them are empolyees the rest are test, log, and support accounts. Some of the users are well into the 2GB size in their mailboxes are doing the dreaded "create an offline folder and move their old emails over to it". So even I am sure we'll fill up a 500GB HD pretty fast if the data is uncompressed.

  
  We don't do any encryption (neither does Exchange, of course), but we do compress the archived messages in two ways: firstly, the message bodies and headers are compressed when they are stored, and secondly, we "single instance" both message bodies and attachments within each store - so if user A sends a file to user B, then B later forwards it to C, that file will only be stored once.
  

  3. outlook anywhere support would be nice if it's allowed.

  
  We've not formally tested this yet, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work - as long as the Outlook Add-in can see the web service exposed by the UAA Service, it should be fine.
  

  the sales force uses notebook computers but it would be nice to see (if its not already in the plan) a exchange cache tool like EMC's that caches the users archive to their machine so that when they are on the road and nowhere were there is internet they can grab an archived email from their system.

  
  Caching in the add-in is something that isn't in the beta, but is scheduled to happen before the release. At this stage it's going to be limited to caching those messages that have been viewed, rather than allowing a full synchronisation on request, but that's on the cards for the future as well.
  
  Thanks,
  Robert

  Robert C January 20, 2009 13:11

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  Hi, Andrew.
  

  Caching in the add-in is something that isn't in the beta, but is scheduled to happen before the release. At this stage it's going to be limited to caching those messages that have been viewed, rather than allowing a full synchronisation on request, but that's on the cards for the future as well.

  
  We have some more information for you about caching.
  
  Unfortunately, Outlook caching of archived messages will not be available in the V1.0 release. We would love to have included it, but the time just doesn't allow for us both to implement it and test it to our satisfaction. Caching is still a high priority for us, though, for a follow-on release.
  
  The up-side is that we now have a chance to talk through any specific requirements you may have related to caching. Please post this forum (or message me directly) to discuss further.

  ecayer April 02, 2009 11:49

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