Protecting Exchange

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Protecting Exchange

• Memphis Webinar, May 16, 2006
• Lee Benjamin, ExchangeGuy Consulting

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Historical Perspective

• Exchange 10th Anniversary
• Significant Progress
• Client Access
• Outlook Evolution, Web, Mobile
• Security
• Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, and Spyware, Oh-My!
• Email As Primary Threat Vector
• Firewalls and Appliances
• Backup and Recovery
• Recovery Forests Snapshots, Archiving,
  Compliance,Intellectual Property, Legal
  Discovery
• SANs, NAS, and iSCSI over Gig Ethernet
• Managing Exchange
• Easy or Hard, Need to Be Proactive
• Hosting for Security, Infrastructure, Archiving
• Outsource the Crown Jewels?

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Exchange Data Protection

• Backup, Restore, Disaster Recovery
• Capture Institutional Knowledge
• Search and Retrieval
• Restore To Any Point In Time
• Move Old Data To Cheaper Storage
• Compliance, Regulations
• Legal Discovery Costs

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Exchange 2003

• Greatest 2003 Adoption is Now!
• Service Pack Features Show Demand
• Intelligent Message Filter
• Sybari Anti-Virus
• Virtual Snapshot Service
• Database Corruption Prevention
• Larger Databases

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Filling In The Gaps

• Native Capabilities
• Auto-Archive in Outlook
• Warning Messages in Exchange
• Journaling/Envelope Journaling
• 3rd Party Backup Products
• PST Management Tools
• Dont Manage Them, Get Rid Of Them
• Existing Archive Solutions
• Use Journaling
• Heavy Stress On Exchange Server
• Or Add Separate Exchange Server

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Microsoft Directions

• Microsoft System Center 2005 Data Protection
  Server
• Not An Archive Solution
• Database Technology Stays The Same
• WinFS on Desktop Vista (Eventually)
• SQL Store (E13 or higher)
• So EDB, OST, and PST for now
• Vista and Office and Exchange, Oh My!
• Log Shipping in Exchange 2007
• Moving The Logs is Easy
• Parsing The Transaction Logs Is Hard
• Great, but Office UI is Different
• When and How To Deploy

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Exchange Data Protection Wish List

• Compliance, Discovery, Self-Service
• Archive Access via Outlook and OWA
• Remote Access from Outlook, OWA, PDA, and Phones

• Archive and Search Integrated
• PST Mgmt via Policy
• No Impact to Exchange Operations
• Flexible Disaster Recovery Support
• Alternate Location Recovery

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