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...
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...
Enterprise Vault, as we all know, is a highly customizable beast. At times the amount of customization can seem daunting, but in this article I'll share with you 7 tweaks you can make to Enterprise Vault today. These tweaks cover a variety of c...
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...
Hello all, In this article I want to cover the configuration steps of Client Driven PST migration. As we know there are many methods for PST migration. Client Driven, Server Driven, Scripted (enterprise vault policy manager) and import/export methods...
This document details how Enterprise Vault can be configured in an environment where DCOM or RPC communication between Vault Server and clients restricted.
Hello all, In this article I want to cover the steps of two nodes Enterprise Vault Failover Cluster with Windows Failover Cluster Feature. Actually I prepared a guide before and I want to share it. If you have any suggestion it would be improving. Si...
Hello all, With this article I want to explain the steps of initial File System Archiving configuration with Enterprise Vault 10.0.2 . I used my test environment for screenshots. At my test environment; EV Server hostname is WINEV1 SQL Server hostn...
This article explains how to install and configure Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator 10.x. Pre-Requisites: OS: Win 2008 R2 or above Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 (x86) Redistributable Microsoft .NET Framew...
Hi all I'm pleased to announce the availability of a Visio poster detailing Enterprise Vault 10 Server Connectivity. In the Zip file you will find both JPG and Visio formats. Enjoy! Dan
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.
I've recently tested the Server Migration Wizard on my home lab. These screenshots might help to get you an idea of how it looks. It works fine! Read the accompanying documents and download the tool from here: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO42445 ...
I’m really pleased to announce the availability of an excellent new, long-awaited, and much anticipated Best Practice Paper on configuring EV in VMware environments. This has been written by Dan Strydom, from the EV TFE team, and is based on input f...
This document is one of several that details major new or changed features in Enterprise Vault 9.0.3. This document covers the changes made to Enterprise Vault in order to support IPv6 networks. If you have any feedback or questions about this docum...
Introduction Message journaling is a crucial aspect of Enterprise Vault. It builds on top of Microsoft Exchange’s journaling features and effectively means that all items to/from your organisation end up in a journal archive for retention, and disco...
A lot of people have different ways in updating the VSA. In the old days there was a trick to it however now days you only need to update the service account in ONE place if you change the VSA password. This can be done in Four, yes 4 easy steps, a...
