Most of my September was spent concentrating on replacing Vanderbilt’s current email archiving product with a new email archiving solution.
During one week of the month, I worked with a contractor who assisted with the implementation of the new archiving solution. Our plan was to set up the new application within an active/passive clustered windows server 2008 environment.
We were able to implement the new solution but were unable to take advantage of the clustered environment due to some unforeseen OS problems. We decided to carry on with a single server and were able to create a pilot group which included me, two other co-workers and two test user accounts.
There were some pitfalls along the way, but we were able to successfully provision and archive user’s email and retrieve the emails via OWA and the Outlook client add-in.
The last week of September was spent attending on-site training sessions that were geared towards installing, administrating and troubleshooting the new archive solution.
All in all I feel that Vanderbilt is headed in the right direction by replacing our legacy archiving system with the new archiving solution and I look forward to continuing this project and actually migrating users from our legacy system to the new.