Do you have any particular features you are looking for? I set this up for an organization right before I left. We used it for only VPs and not the entire organization for piloting first before they went ahead with everyone. I had left before they did this. One thing you want to keep in mind is scalability with this product. We were either going to go with EMC Xtender or HP RISS. From my research of both products, Xtender was not as scalable as RISS was, and there was an article that did a comparison of both products. However RISS was much more costlier. But it's all going to depend on how many users you tend to support. Also with my experience setting it up, there was alot of buggy issues during setup. For example, we deployed this last summer, My first issue was after installation, part of the archiving tasks were not working correctly, come to find out, it did not support sp1. My second issue, archiving tasks would hang at times. After calling support it was a known issue, and had to go into the registry each time this occurs to delete the task. After asking them if there was a patch to fix this, or if I would have to do this every time, I could not get a direct answer. Another issue, when using FE\BE for OWA, it would not unarchive attachments. After working with support for about a month, they finally found a patch. The odd thing is the patch was released about a month or two earlier. All this gave me the impression that this product was not very mature. May be the product is better now. ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Tue 3/28/2006 11:59 AM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: E-maill archiving solutions? Thanks!!! EMX xtender is actually on the top of our list! We also use EMC for a SAN backend and to grow our mail stores And more info you can share on this product would be greatly appreciated! Mike ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ChongJa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:39 PM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: E-maill archiving solutions? I have used EMX xtender on an EMC Centerra storage. Very good solution, very good integration with Outlook. Retrieving archived messages is directly integrated within Oultook, so messages in your inbox that have been archived are just pointers (still shows message) to the actual message in the database, and retriving the message is simply double clicking the message which copies the message back into your mailbox. Has a lot of features of archiving, including searching the network for .psts to archive them off. ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 1:51 PM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: E-maill archiving solutions? Thank you! I will have a look. ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Blackstone Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 10:28 AM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: E-maill archiving solutions? Mike, Check out the Quest offering as well. Word on the streets is that its something else. ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Hogenauer Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:49 AM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] E-maill archiving solutions? All, I'm looking for a good archiving solution for my enterprise e-mail, I'm running Exchange 2003. Based on SOX compliance and legal requirements I'm currently looking at these products and would love some real world opinions. 1) EMC Centerra 2) Enterprise Vault 3) SherpaSoftware.com 4) exchange@PAM 5) MessageSolution Enterprise Email Archiving 3.0 (EEA) Thanks in advance! Mike