Technical FAQ
No. Continue with your usual backup procedures of your Microsoft Exchange. ComArchive will not make any changes (like other e-mail archiving systems) to your Microsoft Exchange installation. You can safely continue with your existing backup procedures.
Continue with your present maintenance procedures for securing and backup of your data. Remember to insure that the ComArchive Database (that’s a standard Microsoft SQL database) is included in your backup procedures and control that the file share where your store the ComArchive data (you can freely specify where data placed when installing the ComArchive Solution) is included in your backup procedures. You can follow the state of the Application through the ComArchive Control Panel (comes standard with a ComArchive installation), but in a normal day-to-day operation you do not need to control or maintain the application.
Yes. ComArchive is a .Net application. ComArchive is utilizing the .Net 2.0 framework. The changes done in to the .Net framework version 3.0 and 3.5 does not have any impact on ComArchive. So if you have the .Net 3.0 or 3.5 framework installed you can safely install the ComArchive Solution. Get more information about the .Net framework by clicking here.
Oh yes! ComArchive is tested and operational at installations from two to thousands of users. We have customers ranging from ComArchive on Microsoft Small Business Server and customers using ComArchive in a high performance/high availability environment utilizing load balancing and clustering. ComArchive has been designed and developed in accordance with Microsoft® stipulations, guidelines and recommendations for e-mail archiving solutions for use with Microsoft Exchange. ComArchive is a fully Microsoft Compliant Application. For establishing load balancing and Clustering of Microsoft Applications you can follow the Microsoft Guidelines for doing that. You can read more about clustering of Microsoft SQL databases by clicking here, and read a good general guide about clustering a Microsoft environment by clicking here. If you need to use load balancing and clustering you can follow the Microsoft guidelines for establishing such an environment. You are always welcome to contact ComArchive or one of our authorised Partners to get more information about how to establish a high performance/high availability Microsoft environment. In our Technical Guide that comes with the product you can read more about the subject.
ComArchive is tested and installed at customer sites on Microsoft SBS Servers. You can read more about the Microsoft Small Business Server by clicking here.
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Yes. ComArchives data can be delivered to SharePoint Portal Server. ComArchive has authorized Partners that specializes in system integration to SharePoint. Contact ComArchive Partner to hear more about integrating ComArchive to other applications.
Yes. ComArchive comes with an add-on module (ComArchive Integration). The ComArchive Integration is a normal API. If you wish to explore this feature of ComArchive you can order the ComArchive Integration module, when you order the ComArchive Solution. Contact ComArchive or one of our authorized Partners to learn more about the possibilities with integrating ComArchive to other applications.
ComArchive is leading in terms of data compression technology for e-mails and e-mail attachments – while retaining data integrity. The vision of ComArchive is for our customers to have all e-mails always available in a searchable format. Even with the best of data compression technology that does demand disk space. As a guideline ComArchive recommends that you calculate to keep the present seize of your Microsoft Exchange installation and let the future growth of the data volumes happens in the ComArchive Solution. By taking that approach you can continue with your existing procedures for backup and maintenance. There is nothing that hinders you from immediately start minimize the Microsoft Exchange Server storage if you are in need of minimizing the pressure on the Microsoft Exchange Server, or you can do it gradually in a pace that suits your organization. Remember to control the ComArchive archiving status (you can do that through the ComArchive Control Panel) prior to removing data from your Microsoft Exchange Server. Gartner Group estimates that 70% of corporate knowledge is stored in companies’ mail store, but interesting enough only 5% of that knowledge is “active”/used at any given point in time. Research has shown that the activity of knowledge items (e-mails) diminish over time so it makes good sense for companies to keep “fresh” data in the Exchange Server and let people toss around with it (remember at ComArchive keeps track of the information while it’s in the Exchange storage) and gradually move data to the archive over time, while still making it accessible and searchable. With ComArchive installed you can follow exactly that approach.
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