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Spectrum Protect for Mail

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seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’

Hi! We had an open point/call with IBM , seems deleting data from TSM trough TDP exchange client/console is allowed, even if on TSM node deleting backups and deleting archive is set to ‘NO’ My suggestion is to add some features to block this becau...
about 1 year ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Future consideration

Support for the Domino client beyond V7.1 EOS (12/31/2021)

The Domino client is still on version 7.1 and will get out of support on 12/31/2021. Even if there is no further development planned, there should be support available for customers using Domino.
about 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Planned for future release

SP EXCHANGE: FUNCTION TO OPEN/BROWSE ANY .EDB FILE AND EXTRAC ITS CONTENT INTO PST FILES WITHOUT EXCHANGE/API MMC(GUI)

Develop a function to allow Spectrum Protect for Mail MS- Exchange to read raw .EDB files without interaction with Exchange/API and browse the database content to extract all the mailboxes into PST files simultaneously.
over 3 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Mailbox Item Level restore

There is functionality with ISP for Mail (Exchange) that let administrators to restore mailbox item from mailbox database backup, using Mailbox Restore Browser - functionality in ISP for Mail GUI, but it works up to MS Exchange 2013. With Exchange...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Exchange 2010 Single Item Recovery from the Exchange mailbox database

We are using Spectrum Protect Server: Spectrum Protect Server EE Version 7.1.8.1 OS Version Windows 2012 R2 Standard Exchange Server / Client Side: BA Client Version 7.1.1 FlashCopy Manager for Exchange Version: 4.1.1.0 TDP for Mail Version 7.1.1 ...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

Progression of manual backup/restore in DP for Exchange GUI (Task Details)

We have had several customers complain that "Task Details" in DP for Exchange GUI are not updated until a task finishes.
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 2 Not under consideration

Mailbox Restore Browser functionality for Exchange 2016

I would like the Mailbox Restore Browser functionality added for Exchange 2016
over 7 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

Exchange 2013 support with TSM

Target date to support Exchange 2013 with TSM for Mail
almost 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Planned for future release

TDP MS Exchange restore performance issue

"After the talk with development, we could change our incremental restore logic. At restore time, we know which backups we need to restore. We could cache it if it's all in the same restore command. This would be a pretty big re-write, but we thin...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 0 Not under consideration

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