Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.3)
  1. About this guide
    1.  
      Introducing this guide
    2. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Introduction
    1. Overview of Enterprise Vault
      1. How archiving works
        1.  
          Introduction to PST files and NSF files
        2.  
          Benefits of archiving
      2.  
        How to access items in archives
      3.  
        About classification
      4.  
        About records management
      5.  
        About Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator
      6. About Enterprise Vault add-ons
        1.  
          Introduction to EnCase Ingest Connector
    2. How Enterprise Vault works
      1.  
        About single instance storage
      2. About Enterprise Vault indexing
        1.  
          About index volumes
        2.  
          About managing indexes and index volumes
      3.  
        About Index Server groups
      4.  
        About Enterprise Vault Administration Console
      5.  
        About Enterprise Vault sites, Directory, and Directory database
      6. About Enterprise Vault tasks
        1.  
          Introduction to provisioning and archiving tasks
        2.  
          Introduction to retrieval processes
        3.  
          Introduction to PST migration tasks
      7. About Enterprise Vault services
        1.  
          Introduction to the Directory Service
        2.  
          Introduction to the Storage service
        3.  
          Introduction to the Indexing Service
        4.  
          Introduction to the Shopping Service
        5.  
          Introduction to the Task Controller Service
        6.  
          Introduction to the Admin Service
        7. About the Archive Discovery Search Service
          1.  
            About the Archive Discovery Search Service components
      8. About the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In
        1.  
          Introduction to the Outlook Add-In
        2.  
          Introduction to offline users
      9.  
        About IMAP access to Enterprise Vault archives
      10.  
        About the Enterprise Vault Client for Mac OS X
      11.  
        About Microsoft Exchange forms
      12.  
        About OWA Extensions
      13.  
        About the Office Mail App for OWA 2013 and later and Outlook 2013 and later
      14.  
        About Enterprise Vault extensions for Notes
      15. About Enterprise Vault Search
        1.  
          About Enterprise Vault Search Mobile edition
      16.  
        About Enterprise Vault monitoring and reporting
    3.  
      FIPS 140-2 compliance
  3. Enterprise Vault administration
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault administration
    2.  
      Administration Console configuration of archiving
    3.  
      Administration accounts and roles
    4.  
      How to archive PST file contents
    5.  
      How to archive NSF file contents
    6.  
      How to export archived items
    7.  
      Welcome message and other notifications
    8. About reporting and monitoring in Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault Reporting
      2.  
        Report mode
      3.  
        Event and diagnostic logging
      4.  
        System status in the Administration Console
      5.  
        Enterprise Vault Operations Manager
      6.  
        Automatic monitoring of events and performance
      7.  
        Message queue monitoring
      8.  
        Enterprise Vault auditing
    9.  
      How to script management tasks
    10.  
      Checklist of day-to-day management tasks
  4. Exchange Server archiving
    1. About Exchange Server archiving and user mailboxes
      1.  
        Exchange Provisioning tasks
      2.  
        Exchange Mailbox Archiving tasks
      3.  
        Exchange archiving targets
      4.  
        Exchange mailbox policies
      5.  
        Exchange desktop policies
      6.  
        Exchange archiving filters
    2. Exchange Server and journal mailbox archiving
      1.  
        Exchange Server and journal filtering
      2.  
        Compliance Accelerator and Exchange journaling
    3.  
      Types of items to archive with Exchange Server archiving
  5. Exchange Public Folder archiving
    1.  
      Exchange Public Folder tasks, Targets, and Policies
    2.  
      How an Exchange Public Folder task archives
    3.  
      User access to Exchange Public Folder archives
  6. File System Archiving
    1.  
      About File System Archiving
    2.  
      About File archiving policies
    3.  
      About shortcut files with File System Archiving
    4.  
      About setting up File System Archiving
    5.  
      File System Archiving in a clustered environment
    6.  
      The process of File System Archiving
    7.  
      How File System Archiving handles older versions of archived files
    8.  
      How File System Archiving synchronizes permissions
    9.  
      File System Archiving reports
    10.  
      How to restore files with File System Archiving
    11.  
      About FSAUtility
    12.  
      How to back up and scan shortcut files with File System Archiving
    13.  
      Pass-through recall for placeholder shortcuts with File System Archiving
    14.  
      Retention Folders and File System Archiving
    15.  
      FSA Reporting
  7. Archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
    1.  
      About archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
    2. How to configure SharePoint archiving
      1.  
        SharePoint archiving tasks
      2.  
        SharePoint archiving targets
      3.  
        SharePoint archiving reports
      4.  
        SharePoint archiving policies
      5.  
        How to access archived SharePoint documents
      6.  
        About Enterprise Vault shortcuts in SharePoint
  8. Domino mailbox archiving
    1.  
      About Domino mailbox archiving and Enterprise Vault
    2.  
      Domino provisioning groups
    3.  
      Domino mailbox archiving tasks
    4.  
      Domino mailbox archiving policies
    5.  
      Domino mailbox archiving retention folders
    6.  
      Domino mailbox archiving desktop policies
  9. Domino Journal archiving
    1.  
      About Domino Journal archiving
    2.  
      Domino Journal archiving policies
    3.  
      Domino journal archiving database considerations
    4.  
      How to set up Domino Journal Archiving
    5.  
      Support for clustered Domino Journal databases
  10. SMTP Archiving
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
    2.  
      SMTP Archiving components
    3.  
      Security and authentication
    4.  
      Scalability and disaster recovery
  11. Skype for Business Archiving
    1.  
      About Skype for Business Archiving
    2.  
      About Skype for Business Archiving licensing
    3.  
      Skype for Business Archiving overview
    4.  
      Skype for Business Archiving components
  12. Enterprise Vault Accelerators
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault Accelerators
    2.  
      Differences between the Enterprise Vault Accelerators
    3. About Compliance Accelerator
      1.  
        Compliance Accelerator components
      2. The Compliance Accelerator client application
        1.  
          Department administration with Compliance Accelerator
        2.  
          Compliance Accelerator searches
        3.  
          Reviewing messages with Compliance Accelerator
        4.  
          Compliance Accelerator reporting
        5.  
          Exporting messages with Compliance Accelerator
      3.  
        Compliance Accelerator configuration data
    4. About Discovery Accelerator
      1.  
        The analytics facility in Discovery Accelerator
      2.  
        Discovery Accelerator components
      3. Discovery Accelerator client application
        1.  
          Case administration with Discovery Accelerator
        2.  
          Discovery Accelerator searches
        3.  
          Reviewing items with Discovery Accelerator
        4.  
          Producing and exporting items with Discovery Accelerator
      4.  
        Discovery Accelerator configuration data
  13. Building in resilience
    1. About Enterprise Vault and VCS
      1.  
        Supported VCS configurations and software
      2.  
        About Enterprise Vault and the VCS GenericService agent
      3.  
        Typical Enterprise Vault configuration in a VCS cluster
    2. About Enterprise Vault and Windows Server Failover Clustering
      1.  
        Supported Windows Server Failover Clustering configurations
      2.  
        Typical Enterprise Vault configuration in a Windows Server failover cluster
    3. About Enterprise Vault building blocks
      1.  
        Building blocks and high availability
  14. Planning component installation
    1.  
      About planning component installation
    2.  
      About valid computer names for Enterprise Vault servers
    3.  
      Prerequisites for Enterprise Vault components when planning installation
    4.  
      Factors to consider when planning deployment of Enterprise Vault components
    5.  
      Enterprise Vault Directory Service installation planning
    6. Where to set up the Enterprise Vault Services and Tasks
      1.  
        How to plan installing Exchange Mailbox Archiving Tasks
      2.  
        How to plan installing Exchange Journaling Tasks
      3.  
        How to plan installing Exchange Public Folder Tasks
      4.  
        How to plan installing Domino Journaling and Mailbox Archiving Tasks
      5.  
        How to plan installing the Move Archive task
      6.  
        How to plan installing the Storage Service
      7.  
        How to plan installing the Indexing Service
      8.  
        How to plan installing the Shopping Service
      9.  
        How to plan installing File System Archiving
      10.  
        How to plan installing SharePoint Archiving
      11.  
        How to plan installing SMTP Archiving
      12.  
        How to plan installing Accelerator Services
    7.  
      Enterprise Vault databases and planning their installation
    8.  
      Vault store groups and vault stores installation planning
    9.  
      Administration Console installation
    10. Installation planning for client components
      1.  
        Installation planning for Outlook Web App (OWA) and RPC over HTTP components
  15. Planning your archiving strategy
    1.  
      About archiving strategies
    2.  
      Where to define default settings for the Enterprise Vault Site
    3.  
      How to allow users flexibility
    4.  
      How to plan the types of items to archive
    5. How to define your archiving policy for user mailboxes
      1.  
        How to plan enabling mailboxes
      2.  
        How to plan controlling the appearance of the desktop
    6.  
      How to plan the archiving policy for journal mailboxes
    7. How to plan the archiving strategy for Exchange public folders
      1.  
        How to plan enabling public folders
    8.  
      How to plan an archiving strategy for FSA
    9.  
      How to plan a strategy for SharePoint archiving
    10. How to plan settings for retention categories
      1.  
        About retention plans
    11.  
      How to plan the automatic deletion of archived items
    12.  
      How to plan PST migration
    13.  
      How to plan NSF migration
    14.  
      How to plan shared archives
    15. How to plan vault stores and partitions
      1.  
        How to plan handling safety copies
      2.  
        How to choose a location for safety copies
    16.  
      How to plan single instance storage
    17. About Enterprise Vault reports
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault Reporting feature

Where to define default settings for the Enterprise Vault Site

Table: Site properties lists default settings that are to apply across the Enterprise Vault Site.

Table: Site properties

Tab

Settings

General

  • The Vault site alias and description.

  • The protocol and port to use for the Web Access application.

  • A system message for users of the Web Access application, if required.

  • The following site properties settings apply only to Exchange Server archiving: PST holding area details.

  • A note for administrators, if required.

Archive Settings

  • The default retention category.

  • If users perform actions that could potentially update the retention categories of their archived items, whether to allow these updates to take place.

  • Whether users can delete items from their archives.

  • Whether the items that users have deleted can be recovered.

  • The length of time for which the deleted items remain available for recovery.

  • The length of time for which to retain the transaction history for archives.

Storage Expiry

  • The schedule to run storage expiry to delete from archives any items that are older than the retention period assigned.

  • Whether expiry is based on an item's modified date or its archived date.

Site Schedule

  • The schedule to run automatic, background archiving.

Archive Usage Limit

  • If required, you can set limits on the size of archives.

Indexing

  • Indexing level: brief or full.

  • Email content that should not be indexed, such as disclaimers.

  • How long indexing subtasks are retained before they are deleted.

Advanced

  • Advanced settings that you can use to tune Enterprise Vault indexing within the Enterprise Vault site.

    Note:

    Do not change the Indexing settings unless your technical support provider advises you to do so.

Monitoring

  • Performance counters for monitoring Enterprise Vault.

Some of these can be overridden for individual archiving targets. For example, the default setting in Archive Settings for Exchange Server archiving can also be defined at the provisioning group, Exchange Server and Enterprise Vault server levels. Consider the planned structure of your Site and decide where these defaults need to be defined.

Site properties enable you to have overall control of some aspects of archiving in the site. These include the schedule for archiving runs and whether users can delete items in archives. Archiving target and policy settings enable you to tailor archiving for particular archiving targets or groups of users.

Site properties settings are described in the Administration Console help. Refer to the help for more details about these settings.