Archive for November, 2009

Attention all Federal Agencies, legislation authored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that strengthens the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was approved by the Senate on October 20 and is set to become law shortly. Leahy introduced the OPEN FOIA Act earlier this year, and pushed for its inclusion in the 2010 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which was passed by the Senate by a vote of 79-19. The House of Representatives has already passed the bill, clearing the way for President Obama to sign it into law.

With all the attention on Exchange 2010 Archiving I’d like to point out that Mimosa Systems currently has an on demand webinar available on the real story on Exchange 2010 archiving.  You can check it out at:

http://searchexchange.bitpipe.com/data/document.do?res_id=1254157530_411&li=171411&asrc=EM_RWC_9746531&uid=8803465
In this webcast, learn more about the buzz surrounding Exchange 2010′s archiving and retention capabilities. Discover how the features of this technology can improve message management and ensure compliance requirements are met. Get a handle on expanding email volume with Exchange 2010 archiving functionalities.

If you are considering Exchange 2010 for archiving, instead of a 3^rd-party solution, be careful to consider two important requirements that can increase the cost and delay implementation.  First, you should be aware that the new archiving features of Exchange 2010 require enterprise CALs.  If you are not already using enterprise CALs, then you must pay the additional cost to upgrade.   

I recommend that you attend this Ferris webinar on Nov4th to learn about the new Exchange 2010 features for archiving.  http://www.ferris.com/2009/11/04/exchange-2010-archiving-the-analyst%e2%80%99s-point-of-view-2/

Archiving is an important new capability for managing Exchange and email in general and the new Exchange 2010 promises to have all the features you need – or not!

Ferris has accused Microsoft of over selling the Exchange 2010 archiving features in this blog  http://www.ferris.com/2009/11/02/microsoft-oversells-e2010-archiving/  so it is critical to learn what the real story is.