There are many reasons why people appear on the Connect Forums or come to Symantec Partners saying that they have a really old version of Enterprise Vault and want to upgrade to the newest version. It could be that they just haven't had the staff to...
Bring Your Own Device is a phenomenon which is attracting a lot of attention in the IT-worker space. Bringing 'any' device to work to do your day-to-day job seems like a gift to many employees especially in environments with office workers who may b...
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...
Hi all I'm pleased to announce a new whitepaper "Disaster Recovery for Enterprise Vault". This paper covers topics like the loss of a single server or component, site redundancy, replication and steps on how to recover from server failure. Enjoy! Dan
Hi all I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new whitepaper titled "High Availability Options for Enterprise Vault". As the name suggests this paper covers the various ways in which you can deploy EV to make it highly available - including us...
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...
Opening an Exchange/Outlook email which has been archived by Enterprise Vault might to some people seem like the simplest of things to do in the entire universe, with Enterprise Vault. There are a number of different things at play though, so in th...
Hi all I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new Enterprise Vault whitepaper that covers the challenges around archiving a single Exchange server with multiple EV servers. Enjoy! Dan
Hi all I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new Visio poster detailing Enterprise Vault 10 Exchange Journaling with Clearwell integration. In the Zip file you will find both JPG and Visio formats. Regards Dan
Journal Connector : The Journaling Connector is component of Compliance Accelerator collects a random sample of messages sent to the Enterprise Vault archive of a Microsoft Exchange journal mailbox or Lotus Domino journaling database. If an organizat...
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 whitepaper "Configuring Exchange Archiving with minimal permissions". In here you'll find details on how to configure Exchange Archiving in a more granular fashion. Kind Reg...
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...
