Something so simple like employees leaving a company can sometimes cause nightmarish problems with software like EnterpriseVault. In fact it isn't just Enterprise Vault, it is many business related pieces of software, and it is the whole decommission...
One of the most common questions asked by Enterprise Vault administrators on the Symantec Connect forums is: “Why does this mailbox not get archived?”. There are many different reasons why the mailbox may not be archiving, and in this article we'll g...
Do you use Exchange Public Folders? Do you archive them with Enterprise Vault? Managing Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange has always been a bit of a pain, especially if you have had them in place for a long time. It used to be the case where WAN l...
Recently at two customer sites I watched as they did end user testing of Enterprise Vault FSA. These two customers had been long time users of Enterprise Vault for Exchange, and were now stretching out in terms of their Enterprise Vault deployment an...
If you are a consultant have you ever been to a customer that has started to use Exchange Personal Archives and then decided that they want to go to Enterprise Vault? Have you ever been to a customer that migrated to Exchange Personal Archives eithe...
Hi all I'm pleased to announce the availability of an updated version of the popular PST Migration Whitepaper. This version includes the new and very useful features included in the EV 10.0.4 release. Kind Regards Dan
Hi all I’m pleased to announce the availability of a new EV Best Practice Paper - Best Practices for using Enterprise Vault on Hyper-V. This new paper covers: - Benefits of Using Enterprise Vault on Hyper-V - Considerations before deploying Ent...
When it comes to managing an email inbox there are many different approaches to take, and some of these depend on the application that is used to manage the mailbox, others depending on other external factors that might be taking place on a mailbox. ...
In this article I'll explain how to introduce storage expiry in to your Enterprise Vault environment so that it will be least impactful to your environment, and your users. What is Storage Expiry? Storage expiry essentially is the process of removi...
When defining email archiving policies administrators can all too easily get tied up thinking about managing an end users mailbox, and using that idea to drive the way policies are setup. But there is more to it than that. In this article I will show...
Enterprise Vault File Server Archiving is sometime a long-forgotten beast in the archiving world. There is a lot of information which is written about Exchange mailbox archiving, and journaling, and not nearly as much about FSA. There are many aspec...
Symantec provides many solutions that can aid a SharePoint administrator in creating a successful governance plan. This whitepaper outlines how Symantec solutions such as EV for SharePoint, NetBackup, Data Insight and Data Loss Prevention can assis...
In some email archiving circles you might hear the phrase 'Donation based archiving'. In this article I'll explain what this means, and how it can effect the Enterprise Vault email archiving deployment. Essentially, donation based email archivi...
With the downturn in the economy globally, and of course just through natural churn of employees, the topic of what to do with end-users mailboxes of terminated employees is something that is commonly discussed amongst Enterprise Vault administrat...
Many of us Enterprise Vault Administrators, partners, and system engineers have a prime directive of sorts relating to giving all of our end-users a fantastic user experience with Enterprise Vault. In this article I will explain 3 ways to achieve ...
Introduction In many organisations IT decision makers and IT workers want to get users involved in the migration of PST data into Enterprise Vault. They feel that by involving the users the eventual solution of having all of the data available in Ent...
Have you ever looked inside an Exchange journal mailbox after it's been targeted with Enterprise Vault? If you have never opened your Enterprise Vault journal mailbox with Outlook, then you should! In this article I'll give a brief list of the fold...
Three Steps to Successful PST Migrations In this article I will discuss three crucial steps to a successful PST Migration into Enterprise or for that matter into Exchange. If you approach a migration project with these three key-areas in mind your ...
This one-page document explains how governments can cost effectively and defensibly manage the eDiscovery lifecycle.
Attached is a new whitepaper from EV PM. This one written by Rick Krieger on the subject of configuring a "generic" NAS device for use as EV storage.
