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sdo
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15 years ago
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How to automate "Store in Vault"...

Hi Forum,
Does anyone have any URLs pointing to any references re calling "EV" functionality from VBS?  I want to automate the "Store in Vault" button funtionality.  i.e. create an end-user script that trundles down the email folder structure and sends/marks un-vaulted emais for offlining to the vault store.  I'm good with VBS, and I know how to parse the Outlook application objects in VBS.  All I need is the name of the object(s) to instantiate for EV, and which function (object class) to call to effectively send emails to the vault store.  Any URLs pointing to documentation for EV objects within VBS would be good too.
Thanks in advance,
Dave.
 

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  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    15 years ago
    ok well the easy answer is there is no documentation because what you're looking for cannot be done in a scripted fashion through VBS as there are no open methods or API calls you can make. You can record macros or use yugen scripts or similar things to simulate what you're doing

    That being said you can always set up EV policies to do 0 day archiving if you wanted, or you can click Inbox and hit store in vault and it will ask if you want to archive subfolders too and it will go through and archive everything

    Or you could set up Virtual Vault and have an outlook rule to move all incoming mail to virtual vault so it spends little time in your inbox
  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    Moderator
    15 years ago
    Hi Dave,

    Any particular type of email you're looking for?

    The idea of EV is that you specify what needs to be archived, after how many days, of which size, or to get the mailbox under quota (to name a few), and let ev handle that. No need for writing vbs scripts there.
    Sending mails to the store yourself most likely will fail, because of the underlying sql-updating, sis-checking etc.

    If you explain what you want your vbs to do, perhaps someone can tell you how to configure that within EV.




  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    15 years ago

    I don't think the Valkyrie.dll has an open methods that can be called like an API, so its not like you can do something like

    set myEVApp = CreateObject("EnterpriseVault.Client...")  etc

     

  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    best you can do is a recorded macro or yugen script or something similar
  • FlyingBus's avatar
    FlyingBus
    Level 4
    15 years ago
    make a policy that applies to a container/group whatever and move users to that group? that's what we do with leavers.
  • sdo's avatar
    sdo
    Moderator
    15 years ago
    Thanks everyone for the tips so far.
    I guess if I were to re-express my requirement.  I want to implement the "store in vault" button via a script, i.e. write a script that recurses down through my email folders, and for each un-archived email effectively press the "store-in-vault" button.  Basically, I have too much email, and I regularly fill up to my mailbox limit, and it's time consuming to manually go through all my email folders selecting emails and then strore in vault, whichj I have to wait for to perform it's pre-processing.  I'd rather just run a script in the background.

    So, all I need is a little bit of documentation on the objects and methods that the "store-in-vault" button implementes/calls from within Outlook.

    Thanks,
    Dave.
  • JesusWept3's avatar
    JesusWept3
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    ok well the easy answer is there is no documentation because what you're looking for cannot be done in a scripted fashion through VBS as there are no open methods or API calls you can make. You can record macros or use yugen scripts or similar things to simulate what you're doing

    That being said you can always set up EV policies to do 0 day archiving if you wanted, or you can click Inbox and hit store in vault and it will ask if you want to archive subfolders too and it will go through and archive everything

    Or you could set up Virtual Vault and have an outlook rule to move all incoming mail to virtual vault so it spends little time in your inbox