Usability Study for EV Admins
Symantec would like to get your feedback on how we can improve the existing EV environment to make it easier for you. We are looking for EV administrators who use SCOM to monitor other applications, to...
View ArticleSizing the Enterprise Vault PST Holding Area
The PST Holding Area is used by PST Migrations into Enterprise Vault, but how big should you make it? Of course there are a few schools of thought on this topic, so let's discuss: As Big As You Can The...
View ArticleClearwell: Command line starting and stopping of services
Helpful for automating the stop and start of services The Clearwell Utility & Clearwell Commander both have the ability to stop and start the services, both require you to be present to use them,...
View ArticleArchiving More Message Types with Enterprise Vault
When some people start using Enterprise Vault they don't always put a lot of thought in to the types of messages that the system should archive. Many people figure email is email and Enterprise Vault...
View ArticleShortcut Content - How big, or how small?
Setting up the content of Exchange shortcuts that Enterprise Vault should create is something that should be given due time and consideration. There are many factors to consider, so let's describe...
View Article*New* SQL Move Tool
For a long time moving SQL servers underneath Enterprise Vault took a bit of time and a bit of planning. Actually plenty of time and plenty of planning!I spotted something rather interesting on the...
View ArticleEnterprise Vault.cloud: Archiving and Cybersecurity in 2014
Enterprise Vault.cloud security Many of our customers worry about security of their archive data. It is imperative that we not only protect their data, but that they actually have confidence and...
View ArticleMavericks Mac OSX 10.9 and Enterprise Vault
In the past I have used my hackintosh to connect to corporate email servers, and I've used the Enterprise Vault OSX Add-in. It's something though that sometimes lags behind from a Symantec point of...
View ArticleEV v9 PST Migration with DFS - Sharing Information
Just sharing some information.Following this forum post - https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/dfs... - I've been able to successfully migrate PSTs using the client-driven migration method....
View ArticleEnterprise Vault.cloud: Preservation failure will always be costly
As I has said many times to our various partners, customers have (or should have) their own legal counsel to recommend an appropriate retention and preservation policy in regards to data. And it is up...
View ArticleRepeatable Exchange Archiving Testing with Enterprise Vault
One of hats that I wear at QUADROtech is testing one of our top products, Archive Shuttle. In order to test it, and really in order to test many aspects of Enterprise Vault I often have the need to...
View ArticleStorageOnlineOPNS issues on large scale Enterprise Vault Environment
Yesterday I encountered a rather odd issue at a customers site, whereby the storage service seemed to have gone a little bit, well, how shall we say ... mad? After a little bit of troubleshooting I...
View ArticleStorage and Partitions
Do you store your Enterprise Vault data on locally attached disks to your server (DAS)? Do you use a Storage Area Network (SAN)? Do you use Network Attached Storage (SAN)? Whatever you use, the storage...
View ArticleUnable to archive mail item larger than Exchange 2010 MaxReceiveSize or...
Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange 9.0.5 I had trouble archiving 2 large (133 and 149 MB) messages from an Exchange mailbox, no errors in the Event Logs and all other messages archived without...
View ArticleEnterprise Vault.cloud: Legally Defensible Deletion Policy
For many of our customers, defensible deletion should be of a paramount importance. A defensible deletion policy can mitigate risk due to over-exposure (retention) of ESI while maintaining compliance...
View ArticleHow to check if a folder is excluded from archiving with Enterprise Vault
Sometimes as an Enterprise Vault administrator or an Enterprise Vault end-user you might need to check if a folder is excluded from archiving with the Exchange Archiving Task. It's quite simple to...
View ArticleThe Very Best Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-in Version
A question which is often asked on the Connect Forums is:"Which is the best Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-in Version?" That's actually an interesting question. For me the answer lies in the 'big change'...
View ArticleHot Off The Press - Office 2013 Service Pack 1
Useful information for all Enterprise Vault administrators out there is that Microsoft have released Office 2013 Service Pack 1:http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42017, 32...
View ArticleSupport for Exchange 2013 SP1, SharePoint 2013 SP1, Office 2013 SP1
Microsoft announced availability of an SP1 for many of its 2013 wave of products.Specifically this includes Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013.The service packs will be run through our...
View ArticleThe Best Way To Rearrange Your Archived Emails
Something that people all like to do from time to time is to rearrange their archived email. In the past this probably meant you would create a PST file (or three) and start dragging and dropping data...
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