I think the biggest plus of Virtual Vault is that the usage of it will be instantly familiar to an end user. Virtual Vault appears in the users profile almost as a PST, an is afforded the same functionality; drag and drop, message previewing, etc. Co...
'After some time'? Depending on the archive size, initally completing the download of the users archive may take a long time, even weeks. You can check the current state of a user's vault cache by:
In Outlook 2007: Tools-> Enterprise Vault
Outlook 20...
The safest thing for you to do (after tinkering with the Vault Cache files) is to close Outlook, and delete the MDC file, and allow Vault Cache to recreate it. Renaming it back to an MDC file will likely work, but tinkering with the MDC file in this ...
Unless there is a very good reason to change it, I wouldn't. It will put additional strain on the EV Server.
If there are a few users that are finding that they need more frequent synchronization because they are dragging items into Virtual Vault, co...
From the 'Configure Vault Cache' dialog, you should have a 'Virtual Vault' tab if it has been made available to you by your administrator. From there you can select the Archievs you wish to see in Virtual Vault.