With an innovative approach to archiving Exchange data on the fly, Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server 1.0 offers a robust solution for storing and maintaining corporate message data. Though you need some expertise and server capacity to set it up, once this solution is running, it largely succeeds at simplifying the lives of both administrators and end users.
We've all deleted or misplaced an important message in Exchange. Instead of having IT search through backup files, with NearPoint, users can search past messages (even deleted ones) using keywords and other criteria via the Quick Search option in Outlook. Matching results from the Mimosa archive are displayed, along with a message preview window, so you can find lost e-mails. An advanced search option presents more filter options and mimics Outlook's own search capabilities.
Better yet, NearPoint automatically moves user's e-mail attachments into its archive so that they are stored there instead of in user mailboxes. The admin tool let us define and tweak such rules with ease using criteria such as attachment size and message date. This ingenious approach essentially automates the all-too-common chore of users having to clean out mailboxes. We like the reporting available in the admin console, as well. There are about a half dozen reports here, including a useful size and usage report—a must to keep track of the growth and health of your Mimosa archive.
When it comes to installation, Mimosa ranks as one of the more challenging solutions that we've run up against. Setup requires a capable server (or two) with plenty of disk storage space. (One terabyte of disk space is recommended. RAID support is a virtual must for archiving.) Administrators will need to know their Exchange server infrastructure well and do capacity planning based on the number and size of user mailboxes.
Once Mimosa's MMC console is installed, it's exactly what busy IT administrators need to gain complete control over Exchange archiving. The console lets you perform both large and small tasks—like restoring an entire server, as well as individual mailboxes—with ease, along with support for scheduling jobs.
An additional potentially time-saving option in NearPoint allows designated "auditors" to search across multiple mailboxes to find relevant messages, which may be required for organizations meeting regulatory requirements or facing a legal discovery process. Behind the scenes, NearPoint admins can set policies for saving executive-level messages for a period of years, for example, to meet corporate standards. In accord with these policies, messages will be automatically saved or purged from the archive over time.
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1922263,00.asp
We've all deleted or misplaced an important message in Exchange. Instead of having IT search through backup files, with NearPoint, users can search past messages (even deleted ones) using keywords and other criteria via the Quick Search option in Outlook. Matching results from the Mimosa archive are displayed, along with a message preview window, so you can find lost e-mails. An advanced search option presents more filter options and mimics Outlook's own search capabilities.
Better yet, NearPoint automatically moves user's e-mail attachments into its archive so that they are stored there instead of in user mailboxes. The admin tool let us define and tweak such rules with ease using criteria such as attachment size and message date. This ingenious approach essentially automates the all-too-common chore of users having to clean out mailboxes. We like the reporting available in the admin console, as well. There are about a half dozen reports here, including a useful size and usage report—a must to keep track of the growth and health of your Mimosa archive.
When it comes to installation, Mimosa ranks as one of the more challenging solutions that we've run up against. Setup requires a capable server (or two) with plenty of disk storage space. (One terabyte of disk space is recommended. RAID support is a virtual must for archiving.) Administrators will need to know their Exchange server infrastructure well and do capacity planning based on the number and size of user mailboxes.
Once Mimosa's MMC console is installed, it's exactly what busy IT administrators need to gain complete control over Exchange archiving. The console lets you perform both large and small tasks—like restoring an entire server, as well as individual mailboxes—with ease, along with support for scheduling jobs.
An additional potentially time-saving option in NearPoint allows designated "auditors" to search across multiple mailboxes to find relevant messages, which may be required for organizations meeting regulatory requirements or facing a legal discovery process. Behind the scenes, NearPoint admins can set policies for saving executive-level messages for a period of years, for example, to meet corporate standards. In accord with these policies, messages will be automatically saved or purged from the archive over time.
Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1922263,00.asp
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