Protection & preservation for email
Archiving
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive
Internet-based support for your existing email.
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) provides a centralised, easily accessible and multi-functioning email and IM repository to help organisations manage increasingly complex retention, compliance, e-discovery and regulatory requirements.
Exchange Hosted Archive is not available through Telstra – please contact your Microsoft reseller for more information.
How It Works

Service Components
Support to help satisfy industry and regulatory retention requirements
Exchange Hosted Archive has many features that aid in compliance including multiple retention periods, legal hold, supervision by keyword or percentage and immutable storage.Granular Reporting and Auditing Capabilities
Any good security policy encompasses granular audits and logging of system transactions. EHA has numerous auditing reports available in addition to several traceable administrative and user events.Rapid search and retrieval
Indexed storage enables fast retrieval of messages for e-discovery and other investigations.Fully functional backup email system
If primary email systems go down, users and administrators will still have access to archived email and can send and receive new messages in real time.Service Benefits
- Lowers total cost of ownership compared to on-premise archive solutions
- Eliminates up-front capital investment
- Easily integrates with existing email infrastructure
- Allows a predictable subscription-based cost model
- Simplifies the IT environment by eliminating deployment and maintenance of in-house archive servers and applications
- Allows IT staff to focus on other projects
- 24 x 7 technical support
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Technical Requirements
- Exchange Hosted Archive and Exchange Hosted Continuity require Microsoft Exchange Server 2000(SP3), 2003(SP1) and 2007
- Exchange Hosted Archive requires Forefront Online Protection for Exchange for full functionality including emergency backup email access. Other filtering solutions may be accepted via approval
- The Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services Directory Synchronisation tool is optional and requires:
- Windows Server 2003 SP2
- Active Directory (single-forest topology)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (required for Safelist aggregation synchronisation feature)
- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
- Web applications are accessible via a Web browser (Internet Explorer 6 or 7)
Learn
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