ExchangeCompress® is a Microsoft Exchange server based application that attempts to address these problems. It has five major user selectable functions which are:

• Clean up the deleted items and sent items folders
• Compress the attachments in all the mailboxes in a selected store. The attachments are then stored in the email as industry standard zip files.
• Strip the attachments from the email and store the attachment on disk as a file in a either a shared network location or the user's home directory.  Duplicate files can be eliminated so a file that is the same can be shared among many e-mail attachments.  This can be completely transparent to the user, who will still see the attachment as normal.  Outlook Web Access can be supported.
• Defragment the selected stores to make storage contiguous, eliminating unused storage and reducing the database size.
• With the ExchangeCompress Analyze function, you can evaluate the impact of your selected actions before commiting your updates to the Exchange Store.

IT Management Issues

• E-mails are growing exponentially as users don't manage their e-mail
• Users will not manage their e-mail unless forced to by the use of quotas
• Backing up large and duplicated e-mail attachments is time consuming and costly
• Many copies of the same file are in attachments that use up space

Advantages

• ExchangeCompress can be installed on Windows 2000® Server, Advanced Server and all versions of Windows 2003 Server®
• ExchangeCompress supports Microsoft Exchange 2000 through 2007
• ExchangeCompress can reduce the size of a Microsoft Exchange Store by more than half
• ExchangeCompress uses industry standard zip files to compress attachments
• ExchangeCompress can be run interactively or scheduled to run in batch
• ExchangeCompress allows rules to be defined on which attachments to process
• ExchangeCompress can automatically empty the Deleted Items folder.
• ExchangeCompress can delete Sent Items by date
• ExchangeCompress supports a command line interface so it can be run in conjunction with other processing
• ExchangeCompress can be schedule to stop processing after a certain amount of time and continue the next time it runs
• ExchangeCompress will create reports in text, html and csv format.
• ExchangeCompress lets you see the results of your actions without updating the Exchange Store

ExchangeCompress can be run interactively, from the command line or scheduled to run in batch.  ExchangeCompress has been designed to process Exchange stores in a completely automated way.  With ExchangeCompress, administrators have the option to process and defragment a single Exchange store, or multiple stores according to a schedule.ExchangeCompress will kick off a scheduled ExchangeCompress task automatically and when there is not enough time to complete, the schedule will continue at the next interval.  Let ExchangeCompress manage your Exchange e-mail stores and make time to deal with more strategic tasks.