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BrttanyTong's avatar
BrttanyTong
Level 3
4 years ago

How do I use Enterprise Vault to archive Exchange that has been archived by Enterprise Vault

Hello Guys I hava a question ,My Mail Server is Exchange 2013 and I use Enterprise Vault 12.3 for archiving,The archiving operation does not delete the original item after archiving.When I migrate E...
  • GertjanA's avatar
    GertjanA
    4 years ago

    Hello,

    1 - Migrate mailbox back to 2013, restore archive to mailbox, migrate to 2016 again..

    2 - Remove EV shortcuts from mailbox, export archive to PST, import into mailbox

    3 - use 3rd party migration tool to migrate archive into mailbox

    4 - get a consultant in who knows EV.

    That last one would have saved you a headache, as it is one of the easiest way to check how items are archived. Usually, items are not deleted, they are archived. To allow users to find them, they are converted to shortcuts. A shortcut usually does not have attachments, but links to them, and possibly contains only the first 100 lines of the original mail. It also should have a different icon, due to the messageclass change (IPM.Note turns into IPM.Note.EnterpriseVault.Shortcut).

GertjanA's avatar
GertjanA
Moderator
4 years ago

Hello,

1 - Migrate mailbox back to 2013, restore archive to mailbox, migrate to 2016 again..

2 - Remove EV shortcuts from mailbox, export archive to PST, import into mailbox

3 - use 3rd party migration tool to migrate archive into mailbox

4 - get a consultant in who knows EV.

That last one would have saved you a headache, as it is one of the easiest way to check how items are archived. Usually, items are not deleted, they are archived. To allow users to find them, they are converted to shortcuts. A shortcut usually does not have attachments, but links to them, and possibly contains only the first 100 lines of the original mail. It also should have a different icon, due to the messageclass change (IPM.Note turns into IPM.Note.EnterpriseVault.Shortcut).

  • BrttanyTong's avatar
    BrttanyTong
    Level 3
    4 years ago
    Thank you for your help.The mailbox has been successfully migrated to Exchange 2016. It is not possible to archive these mails with Enterprise Vault 12.5, because the migrated mails have been archived before. How to remove the archived marks?There was talk in the community of changing the database table fields and registry of the Enterprise Vault server, but no solution was provided.
  • Prone2Typos's avatar
    Prone2Typos
    Moderator
    4 years ago

    GertjanAis spot on. From what I read, you want to re-archive content in a new EV. FWIW I think you can accomplish what you are seeking with the IgnoreEVDates key

    • BrttanyTong's avatar
      BrttanyTong
      Level 3
      4 years ago
      Yes,I want to re-archive content in a new EV,Is it enough to just change the registry key?
      • Prone2Typos's avatar
        Prone2Typos
        Moderator
        4 years ago

        IIRC yes... but test test test test. I would try against a single mailbox that nobody cares about and test the heck out of the results. I also am mildly interested in the use case of archiving user mailboxes and not removing the data from them. Are you going to do that again? If so why?