That's a "real-life" situation that we run into many times when
we've gone out and worked with companies. We might be called in by
a company that has both a Microsoft Exchange and a Notes/Domino
email system and they want to tie an
archive together, so that the content is
searchable across the whole enterprise. This usually happens
when one company (with Exchange for example) purchases another
company with another email system. As they integrate the
company, they finally move to combine email systems or create an
archive and the difference in email servers presents a problem.
@27545 Just a few years ago, the answer to this dilemma would
have been two archiving systems. Since 2000, the vendors have
gotten pretty good at combining disparate email into a central
archive. Not all vendors support this (it's a good question to ask
an archive vendor), but most of them do have that ability today.
It's very painful to put two
email archiving systems in place; it's also
very difficult to go backwards. Discuss these concerns with your
vendor ahead of time and you'll save a lot of time and
money.
Listen to the Email
archiving FAQ audiocast here.
Go back to the beginning of the
Email Archiving FAQ Guide.