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Archive Attender ®
Mailbox, PST File and Public Folder Archiving
Archive Attender is an administrator-driven solution designed to selectively move or copy messages from Exchange mailboxes, the journal mailbox, PST files and public folders to any storage device visible to the application via the network. Archive Attender assists companies with storage and compliance requirements while offering a flexible archiving architecture that does not require a SQL database or proprietary hardware.
Features
| Archiving Features | Compliance Features | Administrative Features | User Features |
Archiving Features
- Archive data from Exchange mailboxes, public folders and PST files
- Archive from the Exchange Journal mailbox to meet compliance regulations
- Eliminate PST files by automating their discovery, identifying their owners and importing their data into their owners' archives
- In addition to messages, archive contacts, calendar entries, notes, tasks and journal entries
- Customize archiving policies to specific mailboxes, entire Exchange Servers or specific AD groups
- Archive messages based on quotas, sender, subject, date, age, location and size
- In conjunction with Mail Attender, archive based on keywords, attachment type, content, etc.
- Replace original messages with plaintext or HTML-based stubs
Compliance Features
- Archive for specific users/departments
- Archive specific content based on keywords
- Archive all incoming and outgoing messages from the Journal mailbox in native format
- Search archived data for compliance reviews
- Generate manager search views that can be used, through a web interface, to search the archives of a group of users
- Index archived messages and attachments for quick search results
- Maintain audit trails of all activity within the archive
- Enforce retentions on archived data so information is automatically purged after its "useful" life
Administrative Features
- Product management can be driven with an administrative console and through Powershell scripts
- Control users' access to the archives
- Allow users to archive their own messages and search, restore and delete archived messages
- Multi-threaded processing architecture for optimum performance
- Define process-scheduling windows based on flexible start and end times
- Enforce retention/deletion policies on archived data
- Move archived data to secondary and third-tier storage for hierarchical storage management
- Maintain an audit trail of archive activity
- Optionally index all archived content for efficient search of the data
- Search archive for compliance, legal, HR, etc. requirements
- Copy search results from the archive into a mailbox, a public folder or a PST file
- Use the advanced reporting capability to test the results of an archiving policy prior to enforcing the policy
User Features
- If given rights by the administrator, archive, restore, delete and search messages
- Use stubs left in the mailbox to access archived messages
- Access archived PST data through stubs left in the mailbox
- Search archived messages based on sender, received date, archived date, keywords and attachments within the Outlook interface
- Access archived messages remotely through Outlook Web Access (OWA)
- View archived messages in native format using Outlook or in HTML format on hand-held devices and non-Windows computers
- Sort messages to provide a more efficient interface
Tech Specs
Archive Attender offers a flexible architecture and an easy, 15-minute installation. It does not require a SQL database, proprietary hardware or any components installed on the Exchange server or client machines.
Architecture
- Application console to setup the archiving policies, view reports and search archives
- Does not require installation of any component on the Exchange server
- Compatible with Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007
- Compatible with Outlook 98 and higher
System Requirements
- Windows 2000 or higher
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0 or higher
- Approximately 35MB for the Archive Attender console application
- .Net framework version 1.1 and 2.0 (installed, if not present)
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