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  Hi Andrew,
  
  Our 40,000 user system is just one of the testing configurations, so we didn't have any plans to do a demo - do you think this would be useful, and if so, what sort of things would you like to see in it?
  
  Requirements wise, there's a list of prerequisites in the installation guide (PDF).
  
  The recommended requirements will of course vary depending on the size of your organisation, and the usual guidelines apply: running the services on Windows XP works fine for testing, but is limited to 10 concurrent network connections so probably isn't a good idea in production(!), and of course there's a lot of I/O happening, so reasonably fast disks will help.
  
  It also depends on the kind of rules you're going to apply: if you're archiving everyone's e-mail as soon as they arrive, then there's going to be more load on the system as users retrieve the majority of their messages from the archive. On the other hand, if you only archive messages older than a year, the number of times they need to retrieve an archived message is going to be a lot lower.
  
  Hope that helps,
  Robert

  Robert C January 21, 2009 13:21

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  Robert wrote:

  Hi Andrew,
  
  Our 40,000 user system is just one of the testing configurations, so we didn't have any plans to do a demo - do you think this would be useful, and if so, what sort of things would you like to see in it?
  
  Requirements wise, there's a list of prerequisites in the installation guide (PDF).
  
  The recommended requirements will of course vary depending on the size of your organisation, and the usual guidelines apply: running the services on Windows XP works fine for testing, but is limited to 10 concurrent network connections so probably isn't a good idea in production(!), and of course there's a lot of I/O happening, so reasonably fast disks will help.
  
  It also depends on the kind of rules you're going to apply: if you're archiving everyone's e-mail as soon as they arrive, then there's going to be more load on the system as users retrieve the majority of their messages from the archive. On the other hand, if you only archive messages older than a year, the number of times they need to retrieve an archived message is going to be a lot lower.
  
  Hope that helps,
  Robert

  
  Hi Robert,
  
  Since you are not building a compliancy component into the Archiver I think if you did a demo to show how easy it is to search for items out of the total number of shorted emails.. when I mean total, on a admin level there should be (if there isn't already) a page with a magic number which has the total number, so he can find what he's looking for.. 40,000 users would be in the 10 or 100's of millions of emails I would expect
  
  Your product looks great so far. I am not sure if I need to sign up for the beta program or just being here contributing in the forums means I apart of it?
  
  I haven't installed the software yet as I want to see were it's going first, and may try it on my home server after I backup my mailboxes by installing in on another server I setup that I am not using for anything right now.

  firstcoverage January 22, 2009 10:42

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  Hi Andrew,
  
  Thanks - I think we're planning to do another set of videos (there's some here already) at some point, so I'll suggest it as an addition there.
  
  There isn't an explicit "sign up" for the beta programme. If you can get the software running on a test / spare server, that'd be really great - we've really tried to make it as easy to use as possible, so any feedback about things you think we've got wrong, or that don't work as you expect or want them to, would be appreciated.
  
  Thanks,
  Robert

  Robert C January 22, 2009 12:49

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