Introduction

Many companies are migrating their e-mail functions to different hosted mail solutions from service providers or different cloud services, such as O365 from Microsoft. However, there are still companies that have their Exchange server technology on premises; service providers or companies that have not begun their cloud journey are two examples.

For companies that still have their Exchange server technologies on premises, they ask themselves why they should back up a DAG-enabled Exchange server solution. The answer is simple:

• Disaster Recovery

• Application errors

• Logical corruption

• Security breaches

• Malware

Creating a restore scenario for Exchange is more about empowering the possibilities in both the Exchange DAG configuration and the restore operations provide by DPM. A combination of DAG and DPM will give you:

• Less complicated point-in-time restore

• Fewer Exchange servers

• Offsite backup and recovery

• Longer retention time on DPM compared to a lagged recovery in the DAG configuration

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