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Leonardo_Fern1's avatar
Leonardo_Fern1
Level 6
15 years ago

How Do I Remove Items from Vault using Discovery Accelerator

Can I use Discovery Accelerator to remove emails from Enterprise Vault? I am searching my vault for system messages, alert messages, etc. There are well over 1 million. Most of them are in closed partitions.

Discovery Accelerator
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Information Governance
MS Exchange
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Windows
  • Evault_Professi's avatar
    Evault_Professi
    15 years ago
    If you have a large environment...you can use DA to find the items without ACCEPTING the results.

    Example: Run a test search in DA to identify what archives hold the items you are looking for based on your search criteria. Once the search has been completed...view which archives hold the items found based on the HITS column of your search status.

    Then go to the "Search.asp" option to delete those items.

     Once all items are deleted...you can go back to DA and Reject / Run the search again to assure that all items were purged.

    Hope it helps!
    Thanks,
    Dennis
  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    15 years ago

    Nope, DA cannot be used for deleting emails.
    You would have to use Search.asp or other methods that allow deletions

  • Liam_Finn1's avatar
    Liam_Finn1
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    I agree with JW2. DA is only used for discovery

    You would be better of to use search.asp to find the items and then delete the items from there as suggested by JW2
  • Evault_Professi's avatar
    Evault_Professi
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    If you have a large environment...you can use DA to find the items without ACCEPTING the results.

    Example: Run a test search in DA to identify what archives hold the items you are looking for based on your search criteria. Once the search has been completed...view which archives hold the items found based on the HITS column of your search status.

    Then go to the "Search.asp" option to delete those items.

     Once all items are deleted...you can go back to DA and Reject / Run the search again to assure that all items were purged.

    Hope it helps!
    Thanks,
    Dennis
  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    surely its just easier to give the EVAdmin read/delete permissions to all archives then search on the criteria and on the Select Vaults drop down list use "ALL VAULTS"
    becuase you will need the EVAdmin to have delete permissions anyway based on this method