Exchange pre-reqs
Category SPACEWatch Exchange Setup
Bookmark :
Over on the main web site you'll see that we've launched SPACEWatch for Exchange - extending the SPACEWatch Storage Suite into Exchange email storage management.
We had excellent feedback from the early adopters during the beta programme and questions are already coming in from new users. The most common question is "why don't I see any data". I thought I'd post an answer to this question here in case you've also come across this issue.
SPACEWatch for Exchange depends on Microsoft's MAPI technology to access Exchange. This is not installed in Windows by default - so you need a Microsoft application that includes it, or you need to install a Microsoft MAPI client. Here are the options:
"Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs, which, in turn, provide access to the contents of MAPI stores."
You can download the Exchange Server MAPI Client from here.
If you have Outlook installed you don't need to have it running or configure it in any special way. SPACEWatch just needs access to some of the program libraries that get installed with it (Outlook also uses MAPI to access Exchange servers).
Bookmark :
Over on the main web site you'll see that we've launched SPACEWatch for Exchange - extending the SPACEWatch Storage Suite into Exchange email storage management.
We had excellent feedback from the early adopters during the beta programme and questions are already coming in from new users. The most common question is "why don't I see any data". I thought I'd post an answer to this question here in case you've also come across this issue.
SPACEWatch for Exchange depends on Microsoft's MAPI technology to access Exchange. This is not installed in Windows by default - so you need a Microsoft application that includes it, or you need to install a Microsoft MAPI client. Here are the options:
- Microsoft Outlook 98 or later;
- Microsoft Exchange Admin Console;
- Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client.
"Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs, which, in turn, provide access to the contents of MAPI stores."
You can download the Exchange Server MAPI Client from here.
If you have Outlook installed you don't need to have it running or configure it in any special way. SPACEWatch just needs access to some of the program libraries that get installed with it (Outlook also uses MAPI to access Exchange servers).
