Medhurst provides a wide variety of IT solutions tailored to small and medium sized business needs. We are infrastructure specialists and our products include hardware and software, virtualization, support, internet and cloud services, networking and security, mobile and VOIP phone solutions. We were founded in 2005 and there are 8 staff members in our Frodsham office.
How long have you been using MailStore Server?
Around 2 years now.
How did you learn about MCAS training and certification?
We initially took the qualification provided by Zen software who we buy MailStore from. They called up and told us that the qualification was now more official and offered by MailStore themselves.
Why did you carry out certification?
Mainly so that we can use the logo for publicity to help with sales but also simply down to personal pride.
How many of your employees are MailStore Certified Archiving Specialists?
Currently three
Did you use the MailStore study guide? If so, was it helpful?
All of us did use to the study guide to refresh any holes in our knowledge of the product. Pretty much all of our installations are Exchange server based so the use of a proxy is not something we come across too often. The guide is really useful to refer to on an ongoing basis.
To what extent has your technical background knowledge of MailStore improved after becoming certified?
We’ve all learned several new things, in some cases from each other, and in other cases from the study guide material. It has been a useful learning experience.
Are you currently a registered partner with an interest in becoming certified? Then please contact your distributor or our sales team via email.
Our recent case study shows the benefits of switching from an email archiving technology supplied by one of our competitors to MailStore Server technology: The Australian golfing association “Professional Golf Association“ (PGA), whose aim is the promotion of professional golfing, was looking for a less costly alternative to the cloud-based email archiving system from Symantec. At the end of a two-week testing phase, PGA decided in favor of MailStore Server and also took advantage of our competitive upgrade option. This allowed them to reduce the costs of acquisition by 50 percent off the regular list price.
Take a look at this in-depth case study to find out more about the transition to MailStore Server and why Ashley Hunt, Systems Coordinator at PGA, highly recommends MailStore Server.
A new whitepaper is now available for download on our website. The document compares email archiving using the integrated capabilities offered by certain Office 365 plans to email archiving with MailStore Server from Office 365.
The Version 8 of MailStore Server enables enhanced monitoring via Nagios/Icinga. This allows execution results (e.g., archiving tasks) to be monitored more effectively.
The plugin, along with more details, is available here.
Within its standard range of features, MailStore Server allows email files (such as a PST file or a folder containing EML or MSG files) to be archived for specific users. Email files for different users, on the other hand, cannot be archived in a single step.
This can now be easily done using our new batch importing script. The script, along with more details, is available here.
The non-profit organization ‘Legal Services New York City (NYC)’ offers free legal aid to low-income individuals in New York City. Over 600 employees and volunteers are increasingly using emailing for internal and external collaboration as well as communication with customers and opposing parties. The increasing volume of emails was causing various problems. John T. Greiner, Chief Information Officer at Legal Services New York City, explains in our case study how MailStore Server improved the performance of the exchange server and made backups easier. You will also learn why the non-profit organization recommends MailStore Server.
Project Overview
Customer: Legal Services New York City Branch of industry: Nonprofit organization Primary requirements: Reduce the load on exchange server, simplify backup and restore Solution: MailStore Server Licensed users: 600 Email infrastructure in use: Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2010
Today we are pleased to officially announce the launch of the latest MailStore product, MailStore Cloud Edition. Thanks to this product, service providers will now be able to offer their customers email archiving as a service, thereby completing their email service portfolio.
Service providers receive an unlimited, scalable software solution with MailStore Cloud Edition, which they will be able to independently operate either on their existing IT infrastructures or those they have leased.
Interested service providers can register for free with no obligation today and receive background information as well as exclusive access to beta versions over the course of the next few months.
Release of the final version is planned for the end of 2013.
Our case studies illustrate how MailStore Server is suitable for many different application scenarios. In our latest case study on Winbro Group Technologies, an engineering company with headquarters in Coalville / Leicestershire (UK), the email archiving solution was implemented for an email migration project. Before the migration, the old emails were archived with MailStore Server in a one-off operation. The migration from the old email server to the new one was then carried out. This resulted in a significant reduction in storage requirements, since the data volume of the old emails was no longer overloading the server.
The positive feedback from Phil Antill, IT & Facilities Manager at Winbro, is proof of MailStore Server’s success: “In our experience, there is always going to be some friction when rolling out a new IT system. However, there were so few issues with MailStore Server that we would have no reservations about recommending the solution.”
Project overview
Customer: Winbro Group Technologies Industry: Mechanical engineering Headquarters: Coalville, Leicestershire, UK Primary requirements: Support of an email migration project Implemented in: August 2011 Number of licensed users: 120 Email infrastructure in use: Microsoft Exchange 2010, Microsoft Outlook 2010
