Migration Manager for Email Archives (MMEA)
The Quest branded OEM version of Archive Shuttle to align with their Migration Manager suite of utilities.
Migration
Go wide or Going wide
A configuration designed to “Go Wide” is one where you have a high number of archives for export (Archive Parallelism) and configure a low number of items per archive (Item Parallelism) to maximize export speed and content for diversity of target containers to maximize the ability to import at the product’s maximum speeds.
A fully-loaded environment
A “fully-loaded” migration environment has plenty of work to be performed at all stages of the migration and in queue to start. What exactly it is is dependent upon your module configuration and is sometimes limited by preceding projects (like mailbox migrations) or even total work to be accomplished.
Shortcut / Stub
In an archive migration, shortcuts or stubs are the items left behind within a users mailbox during the archiving process designed to “look and feel” like a full email message. Shortcuts are the term Enterprise Vault uses and officially Microsoft refers to them as stubs. Despite appearing to be the same, shortcuts/stubs commonly have a … Read more
Front/Back of the house
Borrowed from the food service industry and used to describe the delineation between the area of preparation/readiness/creation/experimentation/production (Back of the house) vs (Front of the house) the area where the customer visible areas where they are greeted, given an impression of the organization, made to feel cozy, and ultimately consume the end product from the … Read more
Foreign Shortcuts
Shortcuts or stubs of original email messages within a user’s mailbox that are not affiliated with the mapping’s source container (or archive).
fan-out
The ratio an item is distributed. Relates to Journal migrations as the ratio a message stored was sent to a member of the organization, and related to native Exchange Journaling where inbound messages are fanned out over the server architecture (and consolidated prior to archiving).
Public cloud
When services are rendered over a network that’s open for public use. Examples of public cloud service providers include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle, Microsoft, and Google.
PowerShell
These are codes (a framework from Microsoft) used to perform task automation and configuration management. For example, check out the Archive Shuttle PowerShell Guide. Other names PS PowerShell script
Megabits per second
A unit of measure used to distinguish speed of electronic transmissions. Especially relevant in data migration projects. Also see kbps and gbps. Other Names mbps