EV Wish List - SUMMARY, DO NOT REPLY

[MichelZ]

Gents

I have started a Wish List Thread here:

https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board/message?board.id=106&thread.id=18474&jump=true

Please use the above mentioned thread to reply your wishes.

DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD!

(I won't be able to edit my post once someone replied)

Here is the List:

Requests:

• A tool to deal with orphaned vaults, ie. when a mailbox is deleted the vault remains albeit in an orphaned state.
• AD Resolvable Names in Search
• How about an Advanced Find that allows you to search on more discrete units of time than just months and years? (i.e. days and weeks)
• Auto-Restore of Item when Forwarding Messages
• Ability not to have your entire vault downloaded if you use offline folders and Archive Explorer (would like to see this as an option)
• Allow only certain users to delete (goes back to policies being at the OU level)
• Allow archive from BlackBerry/WindowsMobile
• Lite EV search tool that can run on a BlackBerry/WindowsMobile
• Search and Restore to Inbox from BlackBerry/WindowsMobile
• Auto-Pulldown Body Text on BlackBerry/WindowsMobile if body Text is not in Shortcut
• Ability for User to Archive PST Directly to EV (no Admin intervention)
• A supported way to cull the audit database.
• How about a EVPM reporter...or some way to know the actual in-place settings accurately for each archive and folder...or maybe just report in the client GUI what the settings really are.
• A few white papers, or sample company docs that take you through design, sizing and mangement for the different features, PST migrations.
• Some way to throttle restore requests...so a user cannot request a 10GB restore and push it back into their maibox and crash Exchange due to transaction log growth.
• Prevent user's from adding an archived folder to an Inbox rule. We have users (bless 'em) who copy all their incoming email to a folder that is 100% archived and then delete it when they read it. Does wonders for store fragmentation and audit trails...
• Index Locations / Vault Stores not tied to Server, for HA & Load Balancing
• EVPM for everything in VAC
• The ability to shortcut FSA and have it be retroactive against existng / historical vaults. [Scanner001]
• The ability to delete scheduled searches in Discovery Accelerato [Scanner001]
• The ability to be more granular in the permissions in DA (ability to enable or disable scheduled searches) [Scanner001]
• Be able to reverse a PST that was migrated into a user's mailbox.   IE if a PST gets imported into a mailbox that is not their PST it is difficult at best to back that out.[Jim F]
• Add speech to text so that attached voice mails, etc. are converted to HTML and thus full text indexed and searchable [Mark Olsen]
• Similarly, add built in OCR so that, say, FAX images arriving as TIF files are OCR'd to HTML and also full text indexed [Mark Olsen]
• EV Agent for Desktops; this is still an area requiring a huge amount of manual labor if discovery requires searches of local machines, especially laptops -- essentially FSA for desktops. [Mark Olsen]
• PST Import Wizard: add ability to select PST's in subfolders at same time. [Mark Olsen]
• Archiving of Contacts and Calendar Items: allow admin to designate whether or not to move the original or move a copy into the archive.  It is currently moving the original and leaves a copy in Exchange with a different SID.  This makes programs like Active Sync think you have deleted the original and added a new unrelated record, which, when sync'd to a phone, blows away any custom attributes the user has set on a phone (e.g. ring tones). [Mark Olsen]
• Publish full ERD to facilitate custom reporting [Mark Olsen]
• Enhance DA so that it becomes competitive with dedicated tools like Summation and Concordance [Mark Olsen]
• Add real time monitoring client, much like Quest's Spotlight and Foglight present for Oracle Databases -- almost a nuclear power plant real time display of how data is moving around in the system, rates, etc. [Mark Olsen]
• EV for Voice Mail Systems (e.g. Nortel, Mitel, Avaya, Cisco) where customer for whatever reason is not delivering voice mails as unified messaging [Mark Olsen]
• EV for Call Center recording solutions (e.g. Witness) [Mark Olsen]
• System Integrity Health Report that looks for inconsistent or broken issues -- mailboxes failing to properly archive, folders that that have lost their EVPM retention properties for whatever reason. [Mark Olsen]
• Ability to limit locator task to only process certain volumes instead of entire computers/servers [Torbjorn Sjolund]
• Move existing archives between different EV servers such as a move mailbox approach in Exchange [Torbjorn Sjolund]
• A way to keep local offline vault data intact when changing or reinstalling branch office computers [Torbjorn Sjolund]
• Replace EVPM with Powershell commands.  EVPM is not the easiest tool to use [Faxson]
• Change the PST migration Wizard so that it does NOT inherit message classes from the Default PST Migration Policy.  Might be better to ask which messages classes to use this during the wizard or to ask what policy to use.   I got caught out here as the default PST migration policy does not include all message classes. [Faxson]
• Add the IPM.Schedule* exchange message class as default. [Faxson]
• Change the way that EVOM monitors journal mailboxes.  Currently the "Archiviable items" parameter includes the items that have not been archives as well as the items in the 5 minute wait period (.pendingarchive.part).  I'd liek to have these two message calsses split up so that you can determine if journaling is broken quicker. [Faxson]
• Better still would be to not have the 5 minute waite while journaling Exchange 2007.  I found that the servers are underutilized while the messages are moved from IPM.Note to IPM.Note.EnterpriseVault.PendingArchive.Part.  The server is not archiving at this part of the journaling process and it does take quite a while (especially when you are behind). [Faxson]
• A supported way to destroy individual items from the vault even when journaling.  We had a requirement to do this for stuff like child pornography. [Faxson]
• A way to do integrated online backups using snap technology. [Faxson]
• A way to hide the default retention category in DA when doing a search. [Faxson]
• Parallel searches in DA.  Apparently we can only do serial searches per customer database. [Faxson]
• DA auditing.  It would be good to have a separate audit mechanism for DA usage.  It is currently possible to do searches in DA that are not recorded. [Faxson]
• The ability to add computers and PST file to the locator task.  EV has good tools for server side PST migrations, if only we could use them.  They are pretty impractical in a very large organization [Faxson]
• The ability to archive mailboxes hidden in the address book [Faxson]
• The ability to hide the system and journal mailboxes from the address book. [Faxson]
• For the config wizard to NOT require mountV resources when instaling in a VCS cluster.  We user NetApp and hence don't need MountV resources, but have to create dummy ones to get around the wizard. [Faxson]
• The ability to create folders ad lib within your/public archive [PaulHod_TA]
• The ability to send a folder to a user selected archive (ie users private store on a public one) with contents. [PaulHod_TA]
• Real Time performance monitoring (Items archived per minute, communication time between EV and storage be it NAS/ SAN or Centera) [Scanner001]
• System performance tests to be built into EV so you can validate the system performance (do a test write\ read and delete (including to Centera ---test pool on centera) [Scanner001]
  

3rd Party:

• Unified search tool - to allow seamless searching of archive & non-archived items [3rd Party] - X1, MS Search and others

Planned/Beta Features:

• How about more overall reporting. What is stored, by user mailbox, in the journal archive? What volume trends? What kind of efficiency are we getting from shared archives (single instance storage) - [PLANNED]
• Moved Shortcuts Tracking in Archive Explorer - [PLANNED]
• Some nicer reporting & capacity management tools. - [PLANNED]
• copy policies - ever had to create a new policy when you only want to change
  one attribute it an absolute pain at the moment [PATRICK Kitchener] - [PLANNED]
• BlackBerry/WindowsMobile Support - [PLANNED]
• Have the ability to select a task to verify if communication speed between EV and storage is sufficent to meet EV input. [Scanner001] - [PLANNED]

Completed features:

• Eliminate Directory Server as Single Point of Failure - [EV 6] - Multiple Directory Services
• Deleted Item Retention - [EV 7.5 (2007)] - Deleted Item Recovery
• Administrative Roles - [EV 7.0] - Roles Based Administration
• A MOM management pack to help us deal with all the "Event Rich" environment that is EV.  - [EV 6] - MOM Management Pack
• A method to group archives together to allow different polices to be applied. Not only OU Based. LDAP Query, Group Based etc. - [EV 7] - Provisioning Groups
• NFS Import Capability - [EV 7 SP3]

Message Edited by MichelZ on 08-26-2008 09:06 PM