Archive Attender - HTML Formatting on x64

As a followup to my previous blog located here, this issue has now been resolved.  With combined efforts of Azaleos and SherpaSoftware, we have successfully rolled out this update to our first 6 clients.  It was much anticipated, and has been well received so far.

Cannot enable a user for Communications Server

Why can't I enable users for Communications Server?  The option doesn't show up.

I have found that when I try to enable users on an x64 box, it doesn't show up.  You must run it via 32-bit with: 

dsa.msc -32

SherpaSoftware's Archive Attender - HTML MSG Format Issues on x64 Platform

In my experience with SherpaSoftware's Archive Attender, we found a small issue with the ability to download and display messages in HTML format when retrieving them.

*Before I go on, I would like to stress that SherpaSoftware does not support installing on the x64 platform, and never has. That being said..

My test lab was designed to run on x64 in order to run along side my Exchange server (which meant using the MAPI CDO rather than Outlook MAPI..and Outlook MAPI is what Sherpa uses). The issue is found when attempting to retrieve a message in HTML format from the archive as seen below:
























The issue comes when the user decides hit the 'Cancel' button and pull the message down as an HTML. This is beneficial for numerous reasons. First and foremost, you can then view the message on mobile devices, as well as from a computer that does not have a viewer for .msg files. When a user attempts this on an 64-bit Archiving server, they will get the following error:











Azaleos has worked closely with SherpaSoftware to come up with a possible solution to this, and Sherpa has continued to provide excellent service in this regard. As usual, they continually adapt their product to meet the needs of their customer base, even if that base is using an unsupported platform.

More to come on this front..