Overview

Archive Attender is an administrator-driven data archiving solution designed to selectively move or copy messages from Exchange mailboxes, 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
• Archive e-mail from Exchange mailboxes, public folders and PST files
• Replace original messages with plaintext or HTML-based stubs
• Eliminate PST files by automating their discovery, identifying their owners and archiving their content into the archives
• Generate stubs in user mailboxes to represent messages imported from PSTs
• Enforce age policies on stubs left in user mailboxes
• In addition to messages, archive Exchange e-mail contacts, calendar entries, notes, tasks and journal entries
• Customize e-mail archiving policies to specific mailboxes, entire Exchange Servers or specific AD groups
• Archive Exchange e-mail messages based on quotas, sender, subject, date, age, location and size
• In conjunction with Mail Attender, archive e-mails and attachments based on keywords, attachment type, content, etc.

Compliance Features
• Archive all incoming and outgoing messages from the Journal mailbox in native format
• Search archived data for compliance, legal, HR, etc. requirements
• Generate manager search views that can be used, through a web interface, to search the archives of a group of users
• Maintain audit trails of all activity within the archive
• Enforce retentions on archived data so information is automatically purged after its "useful" life
• Optionally save searches of archived date for future recall of search criteria

Administrative Features
• Product management can be driven with an administrative console and through Powershell scripts
• Control users' access to the archives
• Define process-scheduling windows based on flexible start and end items
• De-duplication of archive locations for single-instance storage (SIS)
• Move archived data to secondary storage for hierarchical storage management
• Set criteria to automatically limit archive locations based on size or date of content
• Optionally index all archived content for efficient search of the data
• 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
• Optional web search given by administrator with options to restore or delete messages
• Search archived messages based on keywords, sender, received date, archived date, etc.
• Results shown in a list with descriptions or in a folder view in original format
• Access archived messages via stubs and search remotely through OWA or RPC over HTTP

Requirements

Archive Attender offers a flexible, data archiving architecture and an easy 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

Systems Requirements
• Windows 2000 or higher
• Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0 or higher
• .Net framework version 2.0 (installed, if not present)
• Approximately 35MB for the Archive Attender console application