Enterprise Vault Expiry and Retention Categories
I just assumed responsibility for our EV installation. I haven't been formally trained, but they are trying to get that approved. In the meantime, our legal dept wants to turn on deletion of files fr...
According to Symantec...
- An email is categorized when it goes into the vault, and cannot be easily changed. Retention Categories put a tag on the email and stays that way unless you purchase some kind of third-party software to change tags. Sounds very expensive to me...
- Changing Retention Categories is a point-forward solution, so any group that has to change retention policies and has to be put into a different retention category will have multiple retention categories on their email. Makes me wonder how litigation holds are actually handled.
- Exchange managed folders (Vault Managed Retention Categories) can only be changed in Exchange. However, see #1 above. Once tagged/categorized, it cannot be easily changed.
If expiry were to be implemented in our current configuration, we'd really clean up the vault, but litigation holds would be a problem. Unless we purchase some third-party software, it looks like we're stuck or at least we're going to have a rough time getting it straightened out.
