Archive for the ‘Compliance’ Category

Exchange 2010 is the next version of Exchange Server and it is due for release the end of 2009 or early 2010.  Exchange 2010 includes many new features and enhancements for archiving. 

Customer have asked me if Exchange 2010 will have all the features they require for email archiving.  I have reviewed the new features of Exchange 2010 and compared them to what I feel are basic requirements for a enterprise archiving solution, and I identified three key areas where Exchange 2010 falls a bit short.

The new administration in Washington DC has signaled that compliance with industry regulatory requirements will be a top priority in the coming months. How does your company prepare for the upcoming, but still unknown requirements?

The first thing you should do is understand where you are lacking when it comes to corporate best practices, especially around corporate data and retention. Do you have a retention policy and schedule? Have you updated it lately? Have employees been trained on it – regularly?

I will be hosting a Bird of a Feather roundtable next week during Teched in Los Angeles, CA .. and it might be nice to meet you if you are going.

BOF02 Regulatory Compliance, Archiving, and Electronic Discovery with Microsoft Exchange Server
Mon 5/11 | 2:45 PM-4:00 PM | Room 501A

Birds-of-a-Feather, Microsoft® Exchange Server

Earlier this week EMC announced SourceOne, which is positioned as the replacement for its aging email archiving product EmailXtender.  For customers considering this software it is important to understand that this is an brand new product that is unproven and offers limited functionality that customers demand and expect in an enterprise class archiving product in this time and day.

SourceOne offers no:

• comprehensive eDiscovery

We all know that email archiving and file archiving are extremely important because of the storage cost savings, eDiscovery savings, and backup and recovery efficiencies they deliver.  Email archiving came onto the scene in the 1990s as email became a very common communication mechanism, but really took off in the last 5 years due to compliance and eDiscovery concerns.  File archiving is in the midst of taking off within the past year or two as organizations realize what a risk all of that unmanaged content poses from several perspectives – eDiscovery, data loss prevention, compliance, privacy, and security.

On December 17^th, 2008, Mimosa hosted their 1^st Exchange MVP/Expert Tech Chat on Exchange Server Issues.

This technical chat was open to anyone and questions were answered by Pat Richard, Steve Bryant, Martin Tuip, and myself (Jason Sherry).

All four of us were Exchange MVPs in 2008 and have been working with Exchange since the pre-Exchange days so we know how hard it is to get some questions answered, so we agreed this was a great event to help the community.