Other Features

PST Import

The Artisan PSTLoad utility allows administrators to import historical mail content into the archive allowing the consolidation of mail content for compliance and regulatory purposes. The utility provides a facility to search within a machine or across the network to identify PST files. It can then either be used interactively to import the PST file or to generate a script to do the import as a batch job.

The loader can simply copy the content to Exchange for later archival through the usual Exchange scanning process, or you can instruct the system to apply rules for each message as it is imported. PSTLoad also allows you to specify a subset (by date) for import and, optionally, whether to delete each mail message once it is imported. You can also, optionally, delete the PST file if it is empty upon completion.

ArtiSan APIs

As stated in the detailed architecture, most of the interface boundaries between modules are implemented using COM. For instance, the Requestor, Scheduler and Migrator are COM Services; the RequestProxy is an out-of-process COM server, the Engine, Archiver and Storage Drivers in-process COM servers. Communications between the modules are implemented using standard COM method calls. Many of these interfaces are publicly exposed allowing the customer or third-parties to extend or adapt the product. A key feature of this architecture is that the system is capable of being scripted by customers.

ArtiSan also supports an HTTP API that allows components to access the archive remotely. All desktop interaction such as the clicking of stub links is performed through this HTTP API. The optional Outlook Add-In also uses this API to archive and restore messages.

Technical Environment

ArtiSan runs on Intel boxes running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server (or above). The product is tightly integrated into standard Microsoft products including MS Exchange 2000. It also employs other standard Microsoft products such as SQL Server and IIS. It is assumed that the underlying Exchange storage mechanism is Exchange 2000 or above. For implementations that stub message content, it is also assumed that the mailbox clients support the use of embedded links within mail bodies (such as Outlook or OWA) in order that users can access the original information stored within the archive.