An Exchange 2003 Journaling Primer

Basel II. Graham-Leach-Bliley. HIPAA. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 17a-4. Sarbanes-Oxley. If you deal with email archiving, journaling, regulatory compliance, or some combination of these areas in your role as a messaging systems administrator or corporate email architect, you're probably familiar with these terms.

Increasingly, governmental requirements for storing electronic communications, specifically email, for audits or potential legal discovery are having a significant effect on messaging systems. Many companies are now implementing specific solutions and technologies to store all sent and received email for long periods of time.

Custom-designed archiving products such as VERITAS Software's KVS Enterprise Vault or Zantaz's Exchange Archive Solution (EAS) are designed to help companies conform to email-related compliance requirements. These products rely on the fundamental functionality that Exchange Server 2003 provides—the initial capture of sent and received email messages. . . .