Question about moving vaulted material from Enterprise Vault to

[John_Paul_WV]

The company has announced new limits on our e-vault folds 3GB. Mine is currently at 9GB. is there a way to move whole folders or delete them?

Is there a simple way to monitor the size of the folder?

Prior to the vault, I used my outlook inbox as an electronic library putting items in sub folders

for example

Foot and Mouth Disease

Sub folder - vaccine

Sub folder - epidemiology

Sub folder - outbreaks

sub sub folder - England 2001, etc

So is there a simple solution - i.e. delete the whole mess, or delete folders or move folders?

[JesusWept3]

Well the question is, are you talking about folders within Enterprise Vault or folders within Outlook?
Theres no real way to determine other than through SQL queries the size of items within a specific folder within Enterprise Vault

[John_Paul_WV]

I am talking about folders in the Vault. After deleting all the enteries in a folder in the folder, I would like to delete it. This would be helpful to track my emptying the vault out. It would be helpful in the vault to delete whole folders in the vault.

[JesusWept3]

The best way to do that would be if you were to use Virtual Vault
Very strange requirement though to keep folder sizes down though

[John_Paul_WV]

The orginial  way enterprise vault was presented to the agency was it was a way to management e-mail outlook account size. Now there is 1 gb on outlook and 3 gb on e vault. Outlook was easy to manage. E-vault has been more of challenge.

[JesusWept3 · Accepted solution]

Well Enterprise Vault is marketed as part Exchange Management and part compliance, although EV can support quotas, the idea is that you can have "unlimited" archive size, with access to all your old email, without impacting Exchange etc

But really the best tool for what you're looking for is Virtual Vault, which needs to be enabled through the Enterprise Vault archiving policies (as long as you have the correct version of EV Server) and the properly support clients

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Also investigate the reporting side of things.. when you delete items from your vault/archive, the number and size of archived items in that archive will go down... so you'll know when you're down to the limit you need to get to.  A user can't find this out though, which is a bit unfortunate.  But perhaps with a bit of scripting know-how you could write a simple page for users to go and touch to find out the size of their archive (that wouldn't be too difficult, IMHO)