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...
Something that comes up in every PST Migration is the issue of ensuring that PST files are located everywhere that users might be using them. In this article I'll describe some different techniques which can be used to find PST files across the whole...
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 ...
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...
Being involved in a PST Migration is something that messaging administrators are getting involved in more and more often. The migration is not always to Enterprise Vault, but there is always a seemingly endless list of things that need to be consider...
Once an organisation has been using Enterprise Vault for several years there might come a time through company acquisitions or general growth that the current Enterprise Vault environment needs to be expanded outwards. The Enterprise Vault organisat...
There has been a surge or interest in the last few years to utilise tablet based or even just small form factor computers or devices. It started back when Netbooks became popular, but exploded in to the mainstream with the Apple iPad. In the last few...
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...
I’m really pleased to announce the availability of a new Symantec Clearwell eDiscovery Platform Feature Briefing; this one is on the subject of the new Audio Search feature that will be introduced in Clearwell 7.1.4. This FB has been put together by ...
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...
