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Exchange can be just the tip of the iceberg. Our organization had a hundred or so custom applications and databases in Notes. That being said, Exchange migrat
by cptskippy 8y ago
Exchange can be just the tip of the iceberg. Our organization had a hundred or so custom applications and databases in Notes.
That being said, Exchange migration can be really tricky too depending on your retention policies, legal obligations around data preservation, and other factors. If you're doing onprem installs of Exchange rather than hosted solutions, you also have to worry about disaster recovery.
Say what you want about LN but it's built-in backup, retention, and recovery mechanisms put Exchange and even most Databases to shame.
I wasn't directly involved in our org's migration but from what I understand, the org waited until it had settled most or all outstanding litigation before attempting to migration. When they did, we changed our data retention policy for email from forever to 6 months before starting. This significantly reduced the volume and scope of work. And I think we kept the 6 month policy after migration because it's legally advantageous.
- greedo 8y agoWe have our long term retention (SEC compliance) with Smarsh, but everything else is 3 months or less. And even after implementing Exchange, we still have a lot of applications in LN that will be retained until someone decides the cost to re-write them is cheaper than licensing and support for LN.