About MailShadow
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Administrator Friendly: Reduced Management Load

MailShadow’s software management approach has been designed to be intuitive for Exchange administrators and is entirely consistent with the Active Directory management scheme. A centralized MMC management console makes it easy to select mailboxes from multiple primary Exchange servers for replication protection, while also allowing for the management of both the local and the remote elements of your disaster recovery system. MailShadow® also simplifies configuration of your recovery system mailboxes. And yes, that means that you don’t have to tangle with any of those complex DNS machinations — unlike with so many of the traditional DR solutions.

 

But let’s get down to brass tacks here. The biggest difference between MailShadow and all those other DR solutions is that MailShadow was actually developed specifically for Exchange right from the start. For the others, quite frankly, Exchange was nothing more than an afterthought — and it shows. So, for example, MailShadow transmits lightweight transaction information in lieu of files, bytes, blocks or disk tracks. You get better reliability and a lower RTO as a consequence, and the load on your WAN is way lighter as well. MailShadow’s transport protocol further provides for buffering, attachment substitution and compression so as to ensure high-efficiency throughput even over high-latency WANs — and that’s an advantage you can continue to take to the bank each and every day.

 

And then there’s also this additional consideration … whereas most traditional file-replication solutions require the installation of software on your primary Exchange servers, MailShadow doesn’t. So why should you care? Well, for one thing, just because you’ve decided to add some software to your Exchange server doesn’t mean Microsoft is going to feel obliged to support it. In fact, quite the contrary … it is not Microsoft’s policy to provide support for non-synchronous Exchange replication solutions for the simple reason that there’s no way to guarantee the results.

 

And then there’s also this … Let’s say you someday end up running into a little problem with your Exchange server and feel the need to call Microsoft Support. That’s when you’ll learn that you first need to yank all those other applications off your server before you can even request assistance. And no, that probably will not prove to be one of your happiest moments.

 

So maybe it’s time you took a closer look at MailShadow. It can help you lighten your load all the way around.