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Jul
What You Need to Know About Email Retention Policies as an MSP
As the trusted IT provider for your clients, one of the 'perks' of your job is that you’re the defacto go-to authority for all manner of (sometimes fairly dry) topics. Email retention policy quite possibly ranks high on the 'dry' scale, but it’s a topic both you and (and they!) really do need to be aware of.
The mailboxes of your customers are rapidly growing treasure troves of useful, important and sensitive information, and that will continue to be the case for years to come.
This makes them ticking time bombs if not cared for in the right way.
There'll be continued support for Exclaimer Mail Archiver up to September 30, 2022, but if your customers aren't yet ready to give up the many benefits of an independent email archiving solution, you'll need to be discussing migration to a better alternative.
If you're working with customers using BackupAssist to protect their on-premise Exchange installations, you'll be pleased to know BackupAssist have now improved their Microsoft Exchange Granular Restore module which includes support for Exchange 2019 up to CU9 and 2016 up to CU20.
