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JoeyD's avatar
JoeyD
Level 2
7 years ago

Enterprise Vault decommisioning

How can I decommision our Enterprise Vault Server ver. 10 running in Windows Server 2008 R2?

  • Hi Joey,

    Can you be a bit more clear? What do you want to achieve? Do you have journal archiving and mailbox archiving? Do you need to restore the archives back to the mailbox? Do you 'simply' need to remove everything? Do you want to migrate to a newer release?

    The simple answer to your question would be 'shut down, delete SQL databases and storage', but I assume you don't intend on doing that :-)

    • JoeyD's avatar
      JoeyD
      Level 2

      Hi GertjanA,

      Thanks for replying. I have already restored the archived emails to respective mailboxes. It was not used for journal archiving.

      Yes, I want to shut it down, delete the database from our SQL Server 2008 R2 as we don't want to use its email archiving function anymore.

       

       

      • CConsult's avatar
        CConsult
        Moderator

        Hi,

        I would first check if everything went good.

        1. So run a script over mailboxes that checks for ipm.note.enterprisevault.shortcut.* files
        2. backup EV server, in case anything goes wrong
        3. Check MSMQ for queued items
        4. remove tasks, services and targets
        5. rightclick on EVserver >>delete
        6. check databases, delete if neccessary
        7. decomission server if not needed for anything else

        this is how I would do it