Poll results: Application virtualization

The results of my last poll are somewhat surprising. I asked if you plan to introduce an application virtualization solution in your organization. 69% of you responded with “yes.” It appears that more admins than expected know about the benefits of application virtualization. However, one should know that the participation was lower than in my [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Tue, September 30, 2008 - 2 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

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Email archiving software features – technical considerations

This is the last article in my series about email archiving features; however, I will probably conduct a new survey concerning email archiving. Today, I will discuss some technical considerations that must be taken into account when introducing an email archiving solution. In particular, I will consider email archiving services, appliances, email systems, and enterprise [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Mon, September 29, 2008 - 1 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

Email archiving software features – archive access

This article in my series about email archiving is about how to access the archive. Perhaps these are most important features of an email archiving solution. After all, the main reason for archiving emails is to search for and retrieve them. Indexing In my last post in this series, I mentioned that email archiving tools [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Thu, September 25, 2008 - 0 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

Email-archiving software features – storage options

This is my second post about the features of email archiving software. Yesterday, I discussed the features that are related to the archiving process. Today I will focus on the different ways emails are stored by archiving tools. As files or in a database There are email archiving solutions that only store the metadata in [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Wed, September 24, 2008 - 0 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.

Email archiving software features – the archiving process

In my upcoming posts I will cover all the important features that an email archiving software can possibly have. As noted before, you can use this feature list to decide what kind of email archiving solutions fit best with your environment and your needs. As things stand now, there will be three posts about these [...]

A picture of Michael PietroforteMVP By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Tue, September 23, 2008 - 2 comments

Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.