Cloud-based Archiving for your Email
Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving provides an enterprise-class service to assist organizations with their archiving, compliance, regulatory and e-discovery challenges while simplifying their on-premises infrastructure, enabling cost savings and easing the burden on IT.
Next Generation Email Archiving
With businesses generating and sharing an ever-increasing volume of information through email, the ability to protect and preserve these critical communications is essential. Whether your motivation is to offload storage management to the cloud, meet regulatory requirements for data retention, or lower the costs of conducting electronic discovery (e-Discovery), implementing an effective email archiving and discovery solution with Microsoft Exchange Online Archiving can offer a number of benefits. Exchange Online Archiving can help you simplify the process of preserving and discovering email without having to change the way your users or administrators work with and manage Exchange Server.
Service components
Detangle complicated archiving storage requirements
Each Exchange Online Archiving user receives unlimited storage in the personal archive with up to an unlimited retention period.
Best in class experience
Users and Administrators have intuitive and natural access to the cloud-based email archive from Outlook and Outlook Web App.
Support to help satisfy industry and regulatory retention requirements
Exchange Online Archiving has many features that aid in compliance including rich retention policies, legal hold, and management features.
Rapid search and retrieval
Indexed storage enables fast retrieval of messages for e-discovery and other investigations.
Highly available infrastructure
The service is designed for reliability, availability, and performance with a financially backed service level agreement (SLA) for a guaranteed 99.9-percent scheduled uptime.
Service benefits
- Lowers total cost of ownership compared to 3rd party archive solutions
- Eliminates up-front capital investment
- Easily integrates with existing Exchange Server 2010 infrastructure
- Allows a predictable subscription-based cost model
- Simplifies 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 Online Archiving requires Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1
- Identity federation with Office 365
- Active Directory synchronization to Office 365
- Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010
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