Customer

Pre-Deployment Guide
Barracuda Essentials
This guide gathers critical pieces of information needed to properly plan, deploy, and test Barracuda
Essentials. Please complete the applicable questions to help ensure a successful deployment.
(Note: Not all questions are relevant in all environments).
Key Drivers
Which of the following are important to you?
Protection against inbound spam and viruses.
Protection against inbound malware and advanced threats.
Email Security Ensuring end users don’t click on bad links or typo-squatted links.
Providing outbound email security.
Providing email encryption.

Providing off-system retention and redundant storage security.

Email Archiving Preventing accidental data loss.
Meeting legal compliance requirements.

Providing an additional layer of redundancy.

Cloud-to-Cloud Backup Adding granularity to backups for restoration.
Allowing users to access their own off-site backups.

Proposed Solution Environment and Configuration

In this section, we’ll gather general information and some specifics on the environment you will be protecting with Barracuda Essentials.
Basic Sizing and Environment Information
You will need a Barracuda Cloud Control account. Do you have one? Yes No
If you need to create a Cloud Control account, go to: https://login.barracudanetworks.com/auth/login/ and click Create a user.
How many active email users do you have?

Students/alumni
For EDU organizations (K-12 and Higher Ed), how many:
Full-time faculty

Office 365
Exchange on-prem
Hybrid (cloud + on-prem)
What is your current email environment?
Google
Other email system

If you are using another email system, which one?

If you are not using Office 365/Google today, do you plan on moving to one of them in the future? Yes No
Basic Sizing and Environment Information

If so, which one (Office 365 or Google)? When?

How many domains do you need to filter?

Are you going to use LDAP for user management with Barracuda Essentials? Yes No
If yes: For Office 365, is it setup as a cloud identity (Azure AD) only, or does it use
direct sync between cloud and on-premises Active Directory?
If you are using on-premises Exchange, will you be able to open ports in your firewall for LDAP access from
Yes No
Barracuda’s IP range at 64.235.144.0/20?

Identify your LDAP Hosts:

For Hybrid Environments (Office 365 + On-Premises Exchange)

Have all your users been migrated to the cloud? Yes No

What is the on-premises server used for?

Will it be remaining in service? Yes No

What does your current routing look like? Standard Custom
Do you have any custom flow rules you may need to review? Yes No
Do you have any existing connectors you will need to review? Yes No

Environment Information for Email Security

Will your end users get access to their own quarantine emails? Yes No
Is there a current email security solution in place? Yes No

If so, which one?

Sizing and Environment Information for Email Archiving

Will you need to import PST files? Yes No

If so, how many PST files are you importing?

Global retention period for archiving (years/months)

Is there a current PST solution in place? Yes No

If so, which one?

Will your end users have access to their archived emails? Yes No
You will need to validate the domains you are passing through Essentials.
Yes No
Will you have access to the TXT records in DNS for those domains?

Local domains:
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How will you configure journaling for Office 365 (web/script/manually)? Web Script Manually

Sizing and Environment Information for Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

This step will help you determine the amount of data to be backed up initially.
Will you be backing up Exchange Online? Yes No
Will you be backing up OneDrive for Business? Yes No

Amount of storage used in OneDrive for Business

Will you be backing up SharePoint Online? Yes No

Amount of storage used in SharePoint Online:

Is there a current solution in place? Yes No

If so, which one?

For more help, please visit https://campus.barracuda.com/product/backup/article/BBS/O365StorageUse/

Retention Schedules for Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

Decide on the retention period for data:
Daily revision days days

Weekly revision weeks(s)

Monthly revisions months(s)

Yearly revisions years(s)

Sizing and Environment for Managed Services Provider (MSPs)

Are you providing services to other companies (as a managed service provider)? Yes No

If so, how many other companies?

Do you control the companies DNS MX records? Yes No

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