Email Archiving for Microsoft Productivity Online Suite

By Stephanie Jordan
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From ComArchive comes a new product announcement for archiving email from Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS). BPOS is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, and consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online. ComArchive now supports archiving of email from BPOS and other hosted email services, using the Exchange Web Services (EWS) protocol.

“Whether our customers want to run their Exchange Server and their email archiving solution on premises, hosted or in the cloud, ComArchive is their first choice,” says Svend Frandsen, CEO of ComArchive. The reasons for choosing ComArchive are performance, efficiency and price. We have delivered solutions to all kinds of businesses, both small and large, and they have had success because ComArchive is email archiving made easy. You can install and setup ComArchive in one hour, no matter what operational setup you choose.” 

EWS differs from the traditional Microsoft Exchange protocol (MAPI) in that it allows for use over any network topology, including the open Internet. This is especially important when using Microsoft BPOS, which is only available via the Internet. EWS is the Microsoft-preferred way to access Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010, and uses Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Extensible Markup Language (XML); both well-known and open, industry standard protocols.

About the announcement, Ferris Research commented: “A nice implementation. This provides a lot of flexibility: on-premises message store can have cloud archive, cloud-based message store can have on-prem archive, and so on.”

ComArchive still supports traditional MAPI-based email archiving in addition to Exchange Web Service-based email archiving, and can even use the same archive database and existing users. According to ComArchive, it is possible for a single user to have email archived from both a local exchange server and a cloud server simultaneously; providing maximum flexibility in deployment, planning and migration scenarios.

Published July 8, 2010