Hey,

What would be a good solution for Exchange Archiving with less than 15 users? I would like to save the mail for 5+ years. Looking for hosted services to save costs. Any Help?

Postini/Google can do this at a cost of $65/user/year ($25/user/year for one year retention, plus $10/year for every year after that):

http://www.google.com/support/appsecurity/bin/answer.py?answer=92704

I also think Rackspace/Mailtrust (formerly Webmail.us) can do this, though I'm not sure if you have to use their hosted Exchange service as well.

Looked at the Postini/Google solution. Was not that impressed. Microsoft and some of the other big names out there all offer services however I feel they may be too clunky for my small setup. Any suggestions?

Hi Mikey,

Take a look at CoolRock Software TEAL ASP archiving. TEAL is a hosted archiving & compliance solution sold via Hosting Providers for $10+/- per month (cost/storage dependent on hosting provider) with 7+ retention while TEAL compresses emails for storage to about 30%. I would contact them to get more information about Hosting Providers. Don't be shy, the management very friendly!

The developers at CoolRock also just build a plug in for MS Outlook, and I believe almost finished their integration with Parallel Automation for Hosted Exchange.

The TEAL archive appears in your Outlook client as a mailbox folder. You can search on all email header information (subject, distribution, size, priority, date etc.) as well as perform lightning quick full-text content searching, and even send, reply, and forward emails right from the archive. Web access is also available

Best of Luck

Cory -

Look into GlobalRelay.com - they have a great interface, and the support is pretty good as well.

Looked at the Postini/Google solution. Was not that impressed. Microsoft and some of the other big names out there all offer services however I feel they may be too clunky for my small setup. Any suggestions?

Really? We've used them before on smaller installations without any problems. You cant beat Postini for filtering and the archiving is just icing on the cake.

For larger installations, we've found Symantec's Enterprise Vault to be fantastic, although cost prohibitive, to some.

Sirius