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| TL-304: Data
Protection, High Availability, and Storage Management for MS Exchange |
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| Abstract |
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Storage
is supposed to be cheap, right?
We keep hearing how inexpensive storage is supposed to be. Microsoft
Exchange presents a number of unique storage management challenges.
The purpose of this lecture is to identify these various challenges
and to illustrate a variety of solutions. The lecture is broken down
into the following sections: |
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 Capacity
Management |
Email
accumulates forever unless you impose quotas, and quotas often undermine
productivity and make for unhappy end users.
There are two ways to keep pace with growing email capacities. One
is to add more storage, and the other is to deploy some form of archiving
solution to offload attachments and older messages to a secondary
storage device.
This lecture discusses a variety of technologies for scaling storage
capacities as well as describing the key features required of archival
solutions. |
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| Backup
and Restore |
Microsoft
Exchange can be very difficult to back up and it is even harder to
restore, especially at the message and mailbox levels.
This lecture illustrates the challenges and offers a variety of solutions.
Topics include message-level restore without brick-level MAPI backups,
snapshots, and instant-restores. |
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| High
Availability and Replication |
| Exchange
is business-critical for many organizations. The good news is that
there are some very simple and effective solutions for ensuring maximum
up-time, utilizing tried-and true data replication and application
fail-over technology. |
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| Regulatory
Compliance and Policy Enforcement |
Recently
a number of organizations have faced extraordinary penalties for not
retaining email or being able to demonstrate a clear email retention
policy.
We explain the need for email retention policies even for non-regulated
businesses and we explain how to implement such policies in the context
of a broader storage management strategy. |
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| Server
Consolidation Over the WAN |
| This lecture
touches on WAN acceleration technology that can be used to consolidate
mail servers across the WAN without a negative performance impact
on the end users. |
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| Intended
Audience |
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| Exchange
administrators and IT managers responsible for the delivery of email
services. |
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