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GFI MailArchiver 14 Appendix 2 - Role Based Installations | 293
NOTE
To achieve maximum performance, assign the ‘Data Collection Role’ and the User
Mailbox synchronization roles to a GFI MailArchiver instance residing directly on the
Microsoft
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Exchange Server with the journaling mailbox.
These are the steps to follow for this deployment:
1. Install GFI MailArchiver on each server.
2. Execute the Deployment Manager Wizard on each of the three servers to assign roles to the GFI
MailArchiver instances. The roles should be assigned in the order as listed in the ‘Executing the
Deployment Manager Wizard on each instance’ section of this chapter. Run the Deployment Manager
Wizard in the order as shown in the following table:
SERVER ID ORDER DEPLOYMENT MANAGER WIZARD
Run Wizard to assign the following roles:
Central Configuration Service
Storage
Search and Indexing
Data Import Service
Run Wizard to assign the Data Collection role and User Mailbox synchronization roles.
Run Wizard to assign the User Interface and Administration role
Table 98: Deployment order
3. Configure GFI MailArchiver through the management console, accessed from Server ID 2, which is
the server with the User Interface and Administration role.
Alternative Scenario
Another recommended scenario is to deploy servers with the following GFI MailArchiver roles:
Server 1:
Central Configuration Service
Storage
Server 2:
Search and Indexing
Server 3:
Data Collection
User Mailbox synchronization