6 ways Piler outperforms Office 365 email archiving
Pricing and increasing costs You need expensive E3 or E5 Office 356 plans for every active, inactive, shared or former user to provide ediscovery, retention and compliance. Piler features a much simpler and cost effective licensing scheme. Legacy email import and exporting emails in Office…
How an email archive can mitigate a ransomware attack
Rackspace has been hit with a serious ransomware attack last Friday causing an outage in their Hosted Exchange service. The incident seems pretty stark, because Rackspace is still struggling with the recovery, and even suggests customers to go to the competition, namely Microsoft 365. Rackspace…
Email archiving best practices
The IT policy should have a section about the email archive. Have a clear communication about its purpose, what you archive, how long you retain emails, etc. The IT policy should designate the data officers and auditors. Encourage users to self support themselves using the…
Why You Need Email Integrity Check in Email Archiving
Email is often used as evidence, therefore it’s important that organizations can prove that the archived emails are stored in their original format, and they haven’t been altered since then. To verify this fact, we need to perform an integrity check every time the archived…
Microsoft Caps Exchange Online’s “Unlimited Archive” at 1.5 TB
Tony Redmond wrote an article about how Microsoft have changed their minds and gradually phased out the unlimited archiving mailbox. The change happened on November 1, 2021, and users can’t to add more information to archive mailboxes “if it pushes the mailbox past the 1.5…
Email backup vs. email archive
Email is still the most dominant form of communication. Both email backups and email archiving are critical for any company’s business continuity plan (BCP). In this article we’ll explore what they are good for, and how they complement each other. What’s an email backup? An…
Authenticate against Google Workspace (formerly gSuite)
Google Workspace (formerly Google Suite Business) is a widely used email platform. This blog post describes how to configure piler enterprise to archive emails at Google. Prerequisites You have your own domain an Google Workspace and piler enterprise installed. Register the archive as a web…
Escaping the PST chaos
Probably the most frequent topics in the Microsoft Exchange group on Linkedin are related to PST files. There are several posts in the group on “How to export emails to a PST file” or “How to recover a PST file”-kind posts. I can also see…
Software maintenance
For the no-tenant deployments the piler daemons have started to enforce the max. release feature. Every piler build has a release date, eg. 20210501. You are entitled to use a specific build if your max. release value is greater then release date baked in the…
Using Azure AD single sign-on (SSO)
Azure is a popular cloud provider, and the piler GUI supports Azure AD to provide Single Sign-On (SSO). In this article we’ll see how to delegate the piler GUI authentication to Azure AD using its SSO capabilities. Prerequisites You have an Azure subscription or trial,…
Latest insights
- 6 ways Piler outperforms Office 365 email archiving
- How an email archive can mitigate a ransomware attack
- Email archiving best practices
- Why You Need Email Integrity Check in Email Archiving
- Microsoft Caps Exchange Online’s “Unlimited Archive” at 1.5 TB
- Email backup vs. email archive
- Authenticate against Google Workspace (formerly gSuite)
- Escaping the PST chaos
- Software maintenance
- Using Azure AD single sign-on (SSO)