Why Third-Party Archiving is Still Necessary in Exchange 2010

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Why Third-Party Archiving is Still
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Why Third-Party Archiving is
Still Necessary in Exchange
2010

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
OVERVIEW
Microsoft offers native archiving capabilities in Exchange 2010, an implicit
acknowledgement by the company that long-term retention and archiving of email is
a best practice. However, while the archiving capabilities in Exchange 2010 are
useful and are clearly a positive advance for Exchange-enabled organizations, these
native archiving capabilities will not satisfy all archiving requirements. Consequently,
most organizations should seriously consider the use of third-party archiving solutions
to satisfy all of their retention and archiving needs.

KEY TAKEAWAYS
• The inclusion of native archiving capabilities in Exchange 2010 will raise the
awareness of email archiving as a key best practice because decision makers will
have these capabilities available as part of the core Exchange feature set.

• However, most organizations will want additional and more sophisticated While the
capabilities that will drive them to third-party solutions, both on-premise and
cloud-based. archiving
functionality in
• Exchange 2010’s archiving capabilities provide a number of useful features,
including the creation of administrator-defined retention and deletion policies, Exchange 2010
support for basic e-discovery, searching across multiple mailboxes, automatic is sound, Oster-
migration of content from each user’s mailbox into the Personal Archive available
in Exchange 2010, and support for both Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007 clients
man Research
(the latter added in a Service Pack release). does not believe it
• However, archiving in Exchange 2010 does not include a variety of capabilities
will satisfy the
that many organizations will require. These include single-instance storage, majority of
archival of data types other than email, sophisticated e-discovery capabilities,
granular legal hold functionality, centralization of archives, or sufficiently rigorous
organizations’
compliance capabilities. Moreover, the native archiving in Exchange 2010 may more sophist-
be more expensive than the use of third-party solutions.
icated and
• While the archiving functionality in Exchange 2010 is sound, Osterman Research granular
does not believe it will satisfy the majority of organizations’ more sophisticated requirements for
and granular requirements for e-discovery, regulatory compliance, server
management or storage management. e-discovery,
regulatory
ABOUT THIS WHITE PAPER
Three leading providers of archiving solutions – EMC, GWAVA, Mimecast and compliance,
Symantec – sponsored this white paper. Information about each of these vendors’ server manage-
offerings is provided at the end of this paper.
ment or storage
management.
CURRENT AND PLANNED ADOPTION
OF EXCHANGE 2010
FORECAST OF THE ARCHIVING MARKET
Osterman Research forecasts that the total North American market for email/content
archiving will increase from $675.4 million in 2011 to $1.3 billion by 2014, averaging
annual growth of 24.5% per year during this period, as shown in the figure on the
next pagei.

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North American Archiving Market Forecast
2011-2014 ($ Millions)

The inclusion of
native archiving
capabilities in
Exchange 2010
will raise the
awareness of
Our research has discovered that 51% of organizations have already deployed an
archiving system and that another 20% plan to do so by the end of 2012. However,
email archiving
25% of organizations either are not sure of their archiving plans or have no intention as a key best
of deploying one. However, when asked about the proportion of email and other practice simply
electronic content that organizations archive – or would like to archive in the absence
of an archiving system – we found that the vast majority would prefer to archive because decision
content today, with significant growth anticipated. makers will have
This data underscores the fact that most organizations want to archive content – this these capabilities
is true even for those organizations that do not have archiving technology in place or available as part
that rely on backups as their “archive”. This, in part, supports our rather bullish
forecast for archiving through 2014, and the strong interest that Microsoft has of the core
generated by including archiving in Exchange 2010. Exchange
THE GROWTH OF EXCHANGE 2010 feature set.
Osterman Research surveys have found significant growth in the adoption of
Exchange 2010. For example, an October 2010 survey of mid-sized and large
organizations in North America found that Exchange 2010 accounted for 11.6% of
the on-premise users of Exchange. A January 2012 survey found that Exchange 2010
accounted for 47.6% of on-premise Exchange users – this figure is expected to be in
excess of 60% by year-end 2012.

ARCHIVING IN EXCHANGE 2010
In the context of archiving, the rapid growth of Exchange 2010 will have two
important implications:

• The inclusion of native archiving capabilities in Exchange 2010 will raise the
awareness of email archiving as a key best practice simply because decision
makers will have these capabilities available as part of the core Exchange feature
set.

• As discussed in this white paper, while the native archiving capabilities in
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additional and more sophisticated capabilities that will drive them to third-party
solutions, both on-premise and cloud-based.

With regard to the latter point, it is important to note that the purpose of this white
paper is not to denigrate the native archiving features and functions provided in
Exchange 2010. In fact, we believe that Microsoft has taken a positive step forward
by including archiving capabilities natively within Exchange 2010. However, the
diversity of archiving requirements will require additional capabilities that are either
not available or are not as easy to realize using the archiving capabilities in Exchange
2010. This will drive organizations to adopt third party solutions in what we believe
will be significant numbers.

WHY YOU NEED TO ARCHIVE EMAIL
There are a variety of reasons to archiving email and other electronic content. While
the reasons will vary from one organization to another and across different industries,
there are three basic reasons to archive content.

LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS Legal drivers are
Legal drivers are typically among the most important considerations for deploying
archiving solutions, particularly in the rather litigious US market. Legal drivers for typically among
deploying archiving solutions can be broken down into three primary areas: the most
• E-discovery important
The searching of electronic data stores for relevant information during a legal considerations
action, the extraction of this data for analysis by paralegals and attorneys, and
the presentation of information to various parties, is the leading driver for for deploying
archiving in many organizations. Because large organizations in particular must archiving
produce information from their email archives on a somewhat regular basis,
many organizations use e-discovery as a key justification for the deployment of solutions,
archiving. particularly in
• Legal holds the rather
Legal holds are another important driver for deploying archiving capabilities, litigious US
since relevant information must be retained indefinitely after a legal action has
been initiated or when decision makers can reasonably expect that such an
market.
action is forthcoming.

• Early case assessments
Whether formal or informal, the ability to perform early case assessments is
another important driver for archiving. The ability to search an archive of email
or other electronic content can be invaluable in helping senior managers, legal
staff or outside attorneys perform assessments of an organization’s legal position
or its ability to produce relevant data before a legal action has commenced or
during its early stages.

REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS
Not wholly unrelated to the legal drivers for implementing an archiving capability are
regulatory drivers. For example, there are at least 10,000 different statutory
requirements in the United States to retain business records, regardless of the format
in which they are stored. A small sampling of these requirements include the
following:

• Financial services
In the United States, SEC and FINRA require that certain securities transaction
records must be retained for three to six years. For the first two years, such
records must be kept in an easily accessible place. A failure to retain records can
result in monetary penalties totaling millions of dollars, as well as censures and
cease-and-desist orders.


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In the United Kingdom, the FSA requires, among other things, that firms must
take reasonable care to make and retain adequate records of matters and
dealings (including accounting records) that are the subject of requirements and
standards under the regulatory system.

The European Union (EU) Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)
Article 25(2) requires that investment firms must keep the relevant data relating
to all transactions in financial instruments that they have carried out, whether on
their own account or on behalf of a client, for at least five years.

In Canada, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC)
Universal Market Integrity Rule 10.12-1 requires that a record of each order to
purchase or sell securities must be retained for a period of seven years from the
date the order record was created, and for the first two years, such record must
be kept in an easily accessible location. Many state,
provincial and
• Energy
In the United States, certain non-public, electronic transmission function local govern-
information exchanged between transportation and marketing function ments have
employees must be retained for a five-year period according to FERC
requirements. requirements to
retain public
• Healthcare
In the United States, health plans, health plan clearinghouses and healthcare records under
providers (e.g., physicians, nursing homes and clinics) must retain electronic Freedom of
health records for six years from the date of their creation or the date when they
last were in effect, whichever is later. Medicare requires that in most cases,
Information,
clinical records must be retained for five to six years from date of discharge or “sunshine law”
last entry.
or related
In the United Kingdom, the Department of Health has established guidelinesii for requirements. In
the retention of various types of health records. Examples include electronic
patient records held by General Practitioners (to be retained indefinitely),
the United States,
standard operating procedures (in perpetuity if electronic), ward pharmacy in the event of a
requests (one year) and audit trails for electronic health records (to be retained
indefinitely).
request for public
information,
• Pharma “sunshine laws
In the US, the FDA requires that records related to food receipt, release and
processing must be retained from six months up to two years; records related to may require
non-clinical lab studies must be retained from two to five years; and records production of
related to drug receipt, shipment and disposition must be retained for two years
after a marketing application is approved for the drug. relevant
information
• Publicly-held corporations
In the United States, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires that accountants within a given
of publicly-held corporations must retain for seven years certain records and time frame,
workpapers relevant to the audit or review of such corporations’ financial
statements. depending on
state.
In the United Kingdom, the UK Companies Act of 2006 requires that records of
corporate resolutions, meetings and decisions must be kept at least 10 years
from the date of the resolution, meeting or decision (as appropriate).
Accounting records must be preserved by a private company for three years from
the date on which they are made and by a public company for six years from the
date on which they are made.

• State and local requirements
Many state, provincial and local governments have requirements to retain public
records under Freedom of Information, “sunshine law” or related requirements.
In the United States, in the event of a request for public information, “sunshine


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laws may require production of relevant information within a given time frame,
depending on state.

• Other requirements
There are a wide variety of other requirements that control the retention and
management of data. For example, the Hong Kong Personal Data (Privacy)
Ordinance requires that data users are required to ensure that personal data is
accurate, up-to-date and kept no longer than necessary. Data users must also
keep a logbook that tracks their refusals to access or correct personal data, and
each such record of refusal must be kept for four years after they were entered.

FUNCTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
Another important reason to archive email is the functional benefits that email
archiving can provide, including the following:

• Email server management
An archiving capability, by offloading email and attachments from email servers
to archival storage, can eliminate most of the content from these servers. The
result is that backups take much less time to complete, restoration of content to
an email server after a crash or other problem is much faster, and email server An archiving
performance as measured by message delivery time and reliability improves.
system, by
• Employee productivity automatically
A user-accessible archiving capability can permit end users to access their own
archived content. This permits users to retrieve missing, deleted or old emails
migrating
and attachments without having to ask IT to do this for them. Not only does this content from
significantly reduce IT’s workload, it make employees more productive by mailboxes to the
providing them with faster access to the content they need to do their work.
archive, allows
Another important consideration in the context of employee productivity is the IT to impose
benefit that an archiving system can have on minimizing the time employees
spend managing their mailbox content. Without an archiving system, employees quotas on their
must spend time filing, deleting or otherwise managing their content to stay users, but gives
under the mailbox size quota that roughly three in five organizations impose on
their users. However, an archiving system, by automatically migrating content users what seems
from mailboxes to the archive, allows IT to impose quotas on their users, but to be a mailbox
gives users what seems to be a mailbox of unlimited size.
of unlimited size.
• Storage management
Osterman Research has found in numerous surveys that roughly five of the top
ten problems in managing email servers are related to excessive storage, a
problem that archiving addresses directly by migrating data to archiving storage.
This not only reduces the overall cost of managing storage, but it reduces IT’s
storage-related costs by enabling the deployment of high-performance, nearline
storage to be delayed or eliminated altogether. Moreover, the use of purpose-
built archive storage for deduplication and block deduplication can offer
additional benefits, although they cannot be used with the archiving capabilities
in Exchange 2010.

• Business continuity and disaster recovery
An archiving system can also serve as an integral part of an organization’s
business continuity and disaster recovery system. For example, in the event that
the primary email system is inaccessible because of a natural disaster, power
outage or even just routine system maintenance, an archiving system can serve
as a secondary repository of email and other content, giving users access to their
content during the outage of the primary system.

• Re-use of data
Business decision makers may also want to re-use content for a variety of
business purposes, such as analytics for purposes of analyzing trends or
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with customers. An archiving system that enables easy access to this data is
useful for these purposes.

ARCHIVING IN EXCHANGE 2010 IS A SOLID
FIRST STEP
Exchange 2010’s archiving capabilities provide a number of useful features, including:

• The Personal Archive in Exchange 2010 is a separate mailbox that can be
accessed by users in Outlook or the Outlook Web App. Content from the primary
mailbox can be automatically moved to the Personal Archive using retention
policies.

Exchange 2010 permits the Personal Archive to be on the same or a different
•
Exchange database from each user’s primary mail database, but users must be
Single-instance
online to access archived email. storage (SIS) in
• Administrator-defined retention and deletion policies can be applied to content in
Exchange 2010
Exchange 2010. has been
eliminated.
• Exchange 2010 archiving supports basic e-discovery capabilities and can filter
messages and attachments by receiver, sender, receive/send dates, message While there are
type and other parameters. some sound
• Multi-mailbox searches can be performed, with access rights given to specific reasons for doing
users based on their roles, such as records managers or legal counsel. so, such as
Clearly, Microsoft has seriously considered the importance of archiving in the context improving the
of overall email management and it has provided a solid archiving capability, albeit performance of
one that will not satisfy the requirements of all Exchange-enabled organizations.
Exchange servers
WHY THIRD PARTY ARCHIVING WILL STILL BE NECESSARY in an era of
There are a number of limitations in Exchange 2010 that will require the use of third
party archiving solutions in Exchange 2010 environments:
falling storage
prices, the use of
• Lack of platform independence single-instance
Osterman Research has found that a clear majority of organizations – 59% –
want an email archiving system to be platform independentiii. In other words, storage is a key
three out of five decisions has a preference for an archiving system to work with benefit of many
any email platform and not be tied to a specific system.
third-party
A lack of platform independence is not necessarily a serious problem for content archiving
archiving vendors that focus on only one platform. For example, a number of
highly successful email archiving vendors provide solutions that work only with systems.
Microsoft Exchange. That said, customers that operate multi-platform
environments need the ability to archive from all of their systems. We anticipate
that a growing proportion of new archiving solutions introduced over the next
12-18 months will be platform agnostic given the clear preference for such
systems in the market.

• Lack of single-instance storage in Exchange 2010
Single-instance storage (SIS) in Exchange 2010 has been eliminated. While
there are some sound reasons for doing so, such as improving the performance
of Exchange servers in an era of falling storage prices, the use of single-instance
storage is a key benefit of many third-party archiving systems and one that
many IT administrators will want to maintain. For example, storage
requirements are significantly greater without SIS. Moreover, storage
optimization becomes more essential over the long term as different content
sources archive the same data – SIS ratios tend to improve over time when the


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technology is available. Without SIS, migrating personal folders (PSTs) to
Exchange 2010 will also increase storage overhead – PST files will end up in the
Exchange stores as-is, with no reduction in size. This data will then be replicated
inside the DAG and require large amounts of storage for essentially redundant
data. Also, as PSTs are pulled into the Personal Archive, users lose the offline
capability to access that data at any time. This data would need to be connected
to Exchange in order to access the data after migration.

While Exchange 2010 may use less expensive storage through tiering, this
advantage is at least partially negated by the elimination of SIS. The use of third
party deduplication technology built into storage hardware, which Exchange
cannot address, can provide additional benefits.

• Exchange Servers do not experience load reduction
The archiving functionality in Exchange 2010 does not necessarily reduce the
load on Exchange servers. Because the archiving system is on-server, content is
not moved to slower and less expensive media, negating a key advantage
available with many third-party archiving solutions. Moreover, a Personal Archive
in Exchange 2010 has the same disk requirements as a standard mailbox. As a A Personal
result, the Exchange infrastructure needs to support, at a minimum, what
amounts to twice as many mailboxes as users. Archive in
Exchange 2010
Non-email content is not archived
•
Archiving in Exchange 2010 does not include public folder content, journaling or
has the same disk
other data stores, such as Microsoft SharePoint or calendar/contact data in users’ requirements as
mailboxes. Because the majority of organizations that archive want to retain all
Electronically Stored Information (ESI), this is an issue that will require the use
a standard
of third-party archiving solutions, at least for non-email content like SharePoint, mailbox. As a
instant messages, social media content and other data types. Because the use
of multiple archiving capabilities will complicate and increase the cost of e-
result, the
discovery and other litigation support functions, many organizations will likely opt Exchange
for a single archiving solution that enables policy management and search using
a single interface.
infrastructure
needs to support,
• E-discovery capabilities are not sophisticated enough for many at a minimum,
organizations
The e-discovery capabilities built into Exchange 2010 provide some useful e- what amounts to
discovery functions. However, they are unlikely to satisfy more sophisticated e- twice as many
discovery requirements, nor can they satisfy privacy requirements in some cases,
meaning that a third-party solution will still be required for most e-discovery mailboxes as
exercises. For example, there is a lack of review capability in Exchange 2010 – users.
instead, it relies on the e-discovery user accessing the search results in a mailbox
and then trawling through the results manually. The work is difficult to split
among lots of reviewers and so reviewing anything more than roughly 100 hits
becomes a very time-consuming task. Moreover, e-discovery mailboxes have a
storage quota of 50Gb, although the quota can be modifiediv. Finally, Exchange
2010 supports indexing of roughly 50-60 different file types, whereas third-party
solutions can support many times this number.

• Exchange 2010 archiving works only with Outlook 2010 and 2007
The archiving capabilities in Exchange 2010 initially required the use of Outlook
2010 and a corresponding enterprise Client Access License (CAL), although the
December 2010 Cumulative Update for Office 2007 added support for Outlook
2007. This means that Outlook 2007 users can now access Personal Archives in
Exchange 2010 mailboxes (albeit without the ability to manipulate archive tags),
but users of earlier versions of Outlook cannot do so, including Outlook for Mac
users. Interestingly, archiving in Exchange 2010 requires the use of the more
expensive Office 2010 Professional Plus for Outlook, whereas support for Outlook
2007 was provided at no charge. Some third-party archiving solutions will
enable end users to access their archives through Outlook 2003 and Outlook for
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• Legal holds may not be adequate
In Exchange 2010, only an entire mailbox can be placed on hold. It is possible
that an individual’s mailbox could be on hold via several different cases meaning
their items never get deleted from the store resulting in enormous storage
requirements.

Moreover, Exchange does not create a separate copy of the respective
mailboxes. It ensures that when a user’s mailbox is on legal hold and he or she
attempts to modify or delete an item from it, a copy of that item is stored in the
Exchange dumpster for safe keeping. The user cannot access or see this item
and so may believe it has been deleted. However, an e-discovery user can still
search and discover against it.

• Retention controls may not be adequate
Other than for mailboxes that are on legal hold, users are primarily in charge of
retention tagging. This can result in the deletion of content from an Exchange
2010 mailbox that should be retained in compliance with corporate policies.
Some third-party solutions offer much more robust controls over content
retention.

• The cost of Exchange 2010 archiving may be higher than for third-
party solutions Organizations
Although archiving is native to Exchange 2010, the use of Personal Archives
requires an Exchange Enterprise CAL in addition to the Standard CAL, not to increasingly need
mention the extra storage required to host potentially very large Exchange to storage non-
stores. This combination may actually be more expensive than a Standard CAL
in combination with a third-party archiving solution. This also applies to the cost email content,
of archiving when used in conjunction with Office 365. such as Share-
• Other limitations Point data,
One source found that the indexing and search capabilities in Exchange 2010 instant messages,
could result in various problems, including corruption in lists of search terms,
non-preservation of location context or metadata properties of content, and social media
other problemsv. posts, etc.
These issues are summarized in the table below.

Summary of Archiving Limitations in Exchange 2010

Exchange Limitation Implications
Most decision makers prefer a system
that is platform independent; will not
Lack of platform independence
be adequate in multi-platform
organizations.
The benefits of eliminating SIS may be
Lack of single-instance storage (SIS) partially or completely offset by higher
storage and e-discovery costs.
Could potentially lead to lower server
Lack of load reduction
loadings and higher costs.
Organizations increasingly need to
storage non-email content, such as
Non-email content is not archived
SharePoint data, instant messages,
social media posts, etc.
Many organizations require highly
E-discovery capabilities may not be granular and sophisticated e-discovery
sophisticated enough capabilities to satisfy complex
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Summary of Archiving Limitations in Exchange 2010 (concluded)

Exchange Limitation Implications
While satisfying most users, those on
Works only with Outlook 2010 and
Outlook 2003 cannot take advantage of
2007
archiving in Exchange 2010.
Legal holds may not be adequate Spoliation of data can lead to serious
Retention controls may not be problems, significant legal judgments
adequate and the like.
Given strained IT budgets in many
Cost of archiving may be higher than
organizations, this can be a serious
for third-party solutions
issue for many.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ARCHIVING IN
EXCHANGE 2010
Any organization that is considering deployment of archiving capabilities in Exchange
First and
2010 should undertake a five-step approach to evaluating their archiving foremost,
requirements:
organizations
1. UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO ARCHIVE need to under-
First and foremost, organizations need to understand that archiving is stand that
fundamentally about retaining corporate records as a best practice, not an option
that applies only to “regulated” firms like broker-dealers or healthcare providers. archiving is
Although the level of regulatory requirement to archive will vary based on the fundamentally
industry in which an organization operates, all organizations have some level of
regulatory obligation to retain their business records. Moreover, virtually every about retaining
company has legal obligations to retain records in the event they are involved in corporate records
litigation, either as a defendant, plaintiff or otherwise involved third party.
Finally, archiving is a best practice from a purely functional standpoint – to as a best practice,
enable users to have offline access to their email and other content, to improve not an option
email server performance and reliability, and to speed backup and recovery
operations by reducing the storage footprint of primary applications. that applies only
to “regulated”
2. DEVELOP, IMPLEMENT, ENFORCE AND UPDATE POLICIES firms like broker-
Every organization should develop policies focused on the retention of important
content in email and other electronic systems. However, many organizations do dealers or
not have email retention policies and, among those that do, these policies are healthcare
often not sufficiently well defined or granular. Part of the problem is that many
decision makers view business records in email incorrectly. For example, in a providers.
February 2012 survey conducted by Osterman Researchvi, we discovered that
senior management in 18% of the organizations surveyed viewed email content
as “transitory” and not worthy of long-term retention. Another 46% viewed
records in email as important, but subject to retention only by employees. Only
35% of the organizations surveyed hold the view that records in email are
important and should be managed by IT according to corporate policies.

Best practices for archiving should include development of granular policies that
focus on the types of content that should be retained, the length of time that
specific types of records will be kept, and how these records will be managed.
The initial development of the policies, as well as their ongoing review and
updates, should be informed by advice from internal and external legal counsel,
regular review of the regulatory obligations to which an organization is subject,
and best practices used in other, similar organizations. Moreover, enforcement
of these policies should be automatic via an archiving system that automatically
retains content. The ultimate goals of archiving are to reduce corporate risks
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3. CONSIDER CONTENT CLASSIFICATION
It is also important to consider the classification of email, using the retention
policy, default policy or personal tags in Exchange 2010; or a third-party
classification solution. Classifying content can make it easier to a) identify
information that should be retained and b) assign unique retention periods. In
addition, some third-party solutions leverage classification to tag information,
making search for that information faster and easier.

4. CONSIDER MICROSOFT OFFICE 365
Decision makers should also consider a potential migration to Office 365,
something that many organizations are seriously reviewing for some or all of
their users. While Office 365 is a robust offering that includes a number of
useful features, there are some important issues to consider when evaluating the
archiving capabilities in Office 365 relative to third party solutions. For example:

• Microsoft Plans E1 and E2 offer only a Personal Archive option – Plans E3
and E4 offer both Personal Archive and Advanced Archive.

• Exchange Online archiving is available only with the E3 and E4 bundles as
well as Exchange Online 2, but cannot be added as an a la carte option to While Office 365
E1 or E2.
is a robust
• While third party archiving tools can be used with all of the Enterprise offering that
bundles, the P1 bundle does not provide for journaling control, so there is
no real option to add archiving to that offering. includes a
number of useful
• Plan E1 requires the archive to share the 25 gigabytes of space between
each user’s mailbox and their personal archive, whereas Plan 2 allows an features, there
archive of unlimited size, although a default quota of 100 gigabytes is are some
provided in Plan 2 – this quota cannot be modified without intervention by
Microsoft. important issues
to consider when
• Just like with Exchange 2010 on-premise, there is a 50-mailbox search
limitation with Office 365vii. Moreover, to enable Microsoft’s e-discovery evaluating the
capabilities requires deployment of the E3 offering, a 50% price increase archiving
compared to E2. Inactive mailboxes, such as those for employees who have
left the company, still need to be paid for as if they were active for
capabilities in
retention/e-discovery purposes. Office 365
More information about Office 365 is available in the Osterman Research white
relative to third
paper Making Office 365 More Secure and Compliantviii. party solutions.
5. COMPARE AND CONTRAST ARCHIVING CAPABILITIES
Finally, a thorough evaluation of the native Exchange 2010 archiving capabilities
should be undertaken and compared with third-party solutions. While the former
will likely satisfy organizations’ basic archiving needs, most organizations will
need third party solutions in order to satisfy more sophisticated e-discovery
capabilities, to centralize their archives and to maintain SIS capabilities.
Consider the upgrade process itself. A third party archiving solution can help
reduce the size of mailboxes prior to migration, and this means you can migrate
less active data to Exchange 2010. It is also important to note that this
evaluation does not necessarily need to be an all-or-nothing proposition: the
native archiving capabilities in Exchange 2010 may be adequate for some users,
while others may need third-party solutions for more sophisticated archiving
requirements.


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