IT investment into software and hardware inevitably fluctuates over time. This has been the case in recent years, with many organisations having to choose carefully what to invest money in, and what to perhaps leave behind, running an older version o...
We all know that there are a lot of different ways that Enterprise Vault can be configured from both the server side processing of items, to the end-user experience on users’ desktops and laptops. There has been a lot written in the past about how t...
A lot of the time people might think that testing an environment, any environment, is something that the software company itself should be doing. This to some extent, is right. And to some extent it’s wrong. In this article we’ll see five different c...
Merhaba , Bu yazımda, son zamanlarda projelerini yaptığım bir başka ürün ile ilgili paylaşımda bulunmak istiyorum. Bu ürün ile ilgili uzun soluklu bir yazı dizi yayınlamayı planlıyorum ilerleyen zamanda. Enterprise Vault :Gartner Magic Quadrant’ta ...
I had the opportunity to test various configuration options in EV as well as on an EMC Centera. A customer has stored the EV archive data on NTFS devices and wanted to move the data to EMC Centera. The sole reason for this exercise was verifying the ...
Many organisations for years and years have been promised infinite mailboxes. These are mailboxes with no predefined limits; mailboxes can grow and grow and grow "forever". Of course, sensible IT teams have always put in place some kind of limit, e...
Email Journaling vs. Email Mailbox Collection Many questions have appeared over the last few months regarding the differences between Mailbox collection and Journaling.. So What are the differences and how can we use them in our presentations? We s...
Corporate Regulation and Email Retention I was reading a document (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/teaching/708x/spring09/t1.pdf) That can really assist in our infinite quest for knowledge about “How Long Email Should Be Saved?” This document ...
One of the challenges that Enterprise Vault Administrators have in their environment is trying to schedule everything that takes place or needs to take place with Enterprise Vault and it's associated touch points on things like Exchange, Active Direc...
There are a few products on the market that deal with software based replication of data, ones that spring to mind are: DoubletakeNetApp SnapMirror There is at least one other, as we'll see. In this article though I want to step back a little bit an...
There are many different ways to load balance Enterprise Vault as the usage of it grows, and the amount of data it starts to accumulate also grows. In this article I will present to you several different ways that this can be achieved. Remember that ...
One of the topics that is often discussed in relation to PST migration is whether it is better to have an agent or agent-less technology to assist with the migration. In this article I'll describe some of the ways in which you can decide which is bes...
When you are involved in a PST Migration or an Archive migration one of the most tricky things to produce is a plan of which users to migrate and when to perform the migration for those user-groups. There are many different variables that should be ...
In this article I would like to share some tips with you about how to plan for an archive migration. This could be a migration from PST into Enterprise Vault or Exchange, it could be archives from Enterprise Vault to a new Enterprise Vault system or ...
In this article I will describe some of the general principles that you might employ when it comes to securing an Enterprise Vault environment. I personally don't think it's necessary to do everything in this article, it is more to give you an idea o...
There are many different helpful articles and documents on the Symantec web site and some in the documentation which talk about how to monitor Enterprise Vault. In this article though, I'd like to present a different approach. I'd like to talk about ...
In this article I'd like to present to you what I think is the ultimate fastest way to find any email. Of course it's not quite as empirical as the title sounds, because I'm referring solely to email, in mailboxes, that comes under the umbrella of ar...
In this article I'll give you five reasons you should eliminate PST files from your environment. These aren't the only five, and some might not be applicable to your usage of PST files. However the list should stir the murky waters of your mind and g...
One of the most important aspects of changing things for end-users of technology in a corporate environment is involving users in the process. In this article I'll explore some of the ways that users can be involved in a PST Migration, not that you ...
When you're doing a PST migration one of the things that you must take in to consideration is the duplication of data. A large percentage of users are likely to have copies of PST files with just small deltas between them. For example let's say we ...
