Arctera Enterprise Vault™ eDiscovery Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (15.2)
  1. Configuring eDiscovery: Desktop Client
    1. Importing configuration data from an XML file
      1.  
        About importing configuration data
      2.  
        Format of the Dataload.xml file
      3.  
        Importing the configuration data
    2.  
      Specifying the Windows domains with which to synchronize employee details
    3.  
      Setting up custom message types
    4. Setting eDiscovery system configuration options
      1.  
        Ad Hoc Searches configuration options
      2.  
        Auditing configuration options
      3.  
        Diagnostics configuration options
      4.  
        Document Conversion configuration options
      5.  
        Export/production configuration options
      6.  
        General configuration options
      7.  
        Home Page configuration options
      8.  
        Item Prefetch Cache configuration options
      9.  
        Item Prefetch Cache (Advanced) configuration options
      10.  
        Policy Integration configuration options
      11.  
        Profile Synchronization configuration options
      12.  
        Reviewing configuration options
      13.  
        Search configuration options
      14.  
        Security configuration options
      15.  
        System configuration options
      16.  
        Vault Directory Synchronization configuration options
  2. Setting up and assigning roles
    1.  
      About the predefined eDiscovery roles
    2. About the eDiscovery permissions
      1.  
        About the facility to allow or deny permissions
    3.  
      Creating eDiscovery roles
    4.  
      Editing the properties of eDiscovery roles
    5.  
      Assigning eDiscovery roles to users
    6.  
      Deleting eDiscovery roles
  3. Working with cases
    1.  
      About eDiscovery cases
    2.  
      Opening new eDiscovery cases
    3.  
      Checking the progress of eDiscovery cases
    4. Implementing analytics in eDiscovery cases
      1.  
        Enabling a eDiscovery case for analytics
      2.  
        Monitoring the progress of analytics data collection
      3.  
        Pausing and resuming analytics on a eDiscovery case
      4.  
        Speeding up analytics data collection in low-bandwidth environments
      5.  
        Disabling analytics on a eDiscovery case
    5.  
      Deleting eDiscovery cases
  4. Setting up review marks and tags
    1.  
      About review marks
    2.  
      Creating review marks
    3.  
      How retained marks work
    4.  
      Editing review marks
    5.  
      Customizing the review marks that are associated with individual cases
    6.  
      Creating tags
    7. Creating tag groups
      1.  
        Creating a single-choice tag group
      2.  
        Creating a multiple-choice tag group
  5. Using rules to mark and tag items automatically
    1.  
      About analytics rules
    2. Creating analytics rules
      1.  
        About the search attributes
      2. About the operators
        1.  
          Guidelines on using the NEAR operator condition in eDiscovery rules
      3.  
        About SQL Server stopwords
    3.  
      Overriding manual categorization
    4.  
      Editing analytics rules
    5.  
      Changing the priority levels of marking rules
    6.  
      About tagging rules
    7. Manually editing queries in analytics rule definition language (RDL)
      1.  
        Using parentheses to set Boolean precedence in analytics RDL
      2.  
        Using stemming in analytics RDL
      3.  
        Specifying custodian and target values in analytics RDL
    8.  
      Deleting analytics rules
  6. Using Custodian Manager
    1.  
      About Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager
    2.  
      Guidelines on using Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager
    3.  
      Setting up custodians
    4.  
      Setting up custodian groups
    5.  
      Setting up custom custodian attributes
    6.  
      Setting the primary custodian attribute
    7.  
      Specifying the user account under which to synchronize custodians
    8.  
      Synchronizing with entire Active Directory domains and Domino servers
    9.  
      Setting the configuration options for Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager
  7. Searching for items
    1. About searching with eDiscovery
      1.  
        Limitations on searching certain types of Skype for Business content
    2.  
      Creating and running eDiscovery searches
    3.  
      About the search criteria options
    4.  
      Guidelines on conducting effective searches
    5.  
      Pausing and resuming eDiscovery searches
    6.  
      About the Monitor Searches tab
    7.  
      Selecting the archives in which to search
    8.  
      Specifying the details of custom search attributes
    9.  
      Restricting search results to correspond to Surveillance departments
    10. Defining email targets with Address Manager
      1.  
        Setting up targets
      2.  
        Adding targets to target groups
    11. Building eDiscovery search schedules
      1.  
        Setting up new search schedules
      2.  
        Examples of recurring search schedules
    12.  
      Setting up custom message types
    13.  
      Using eDiscovery to search archived Skype for Business content
  8. Manually reviewing items
    1. About reviewing with eDiscovery
      1.  
        Limitations on reviewing certain types of Skype for Business content
    2.  
      About the Review pane
    3.  
      Filtering the items in the Review pane
    4. Searching within the review set
      1.  
        Conducting quick searches
      2.  
        Conducting advanced searches
    5.  
      Finding all items in the same conversation
    6.  
      Assigning review marks and tags to items
    7.  
      Adding comments to items
    8.  
      Viewing the history of items
    9.  
      Displaying printable versions of items
    10.  
      Downloading the original versions of items
    11.  
      Copying the item list to the Clipboard
    12. Deleting items from Enterprise Vault archives
      1.  
        Limitations on reviewing items after you have deleted them
    13.  
      Changing how the Review pane looks
    14.  
      Setting your Review pane preferences
  9. Working with research folders
    1.  
      About research folders
    2.  
      Creating research folders
    3.  
      Editing the properties of research folders
    4.  
      Copying items to research folders
    5.  
      Reviewing the items in research folders
    6.  
      Exporting items from research folders
    7.  
      Giving other users access to your research folders
    8.  
      Removing items from research folders
    9.  
      Converting research folders into cases
    10.  
      Deleting folders
  10. Exporting and producing items
    1. About exporting and producing items
      1.  
        Limitations on exporting certain types of content
    2.  
      How exporting differs from producing
    3.  
      Performing an export or production run
    4.  
      About the limits on the number of simultaneous export and production runs
    5.  
      Identifying the archives that contain duplicates of a specific item
    6.  
      How to optimize export and production runs
    7.  
      Making the export IDs or Bates numbers visible in Microsoft Outlook
  11. Creating and viewing reports
    1.  
      About the eDiscovery reports
    2. Enhanced reporting
      1.  
        Configuring a reporting endpoint
      2.  
        Authentication
      3. Departments API
        1.  
          Departments - List
      4. Roles API
        1.  
          Roles - List
        2.  
          Roles - List by filters
      5. Users API
        1.  
          Users - List
      6. UserRoles API
        1.  
          UserRoles - List by filters
      7. ItemMetrics API
        1.  
          ItemMetrics - List
        2.  
          ItemMetrics - List by filter
      8. Evidence of Review by Department API
        1.  
          EvidenceOfReviewByDept - List by filter
      9. Evidence of Review by User API
        1.  
          EvidenceOfReviewByUser - List by filter
      10.  
        Supported OData query options
      11.  
        Supported reporting endpoint API filters and their values
      12.  
        Responses
    3.  
      Creating eDiscovery reports
    4. Available eDiscovery reports
      1.  
        Archive Source report
      2.  
        Case History report
      3.  
        Export Run Duplicates report
      4.  
        Item Detail report
      5.  
        Legal Holds report
      6.  
        Production Run report
      7.  
        Production Run Duplicates report
      8.  
        Productions report
      9.  
        Searches report
      10.  
        Security report
    5.  
      Viewing existing reports
    6. Accessing reports through the OData web service
      1.  
        Available eDiscovery datasets
      2.  
        Accessing the eDiscovery datasets
      3.  
        Using the OData service with Microsoft Excel
      4.  
        Using the OData service with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
    7.  
      Configuring a Power BI template for reporting
  12. Appendix A. Enterprise Vault properties for use in eDiscovery searches
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault search properties
    2.  
      System properties
    3.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties
    4.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for File System Archiving items
    5.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for SharePoint items
    6.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for Surveillance-processed items
    7.  
      Custom properties for use by policy management software
    8.  
      Custom properties for Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
  13. Appendix B. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Display issues when you open a eDiscovery website in Internet Explorer 10 or later
    2.  
      Vault stores not displayed in the eDiscovery web client
    3.  
      Full-text search indexing is disabled by default in SQL Server
    4.  
      TNEF-encoded attachments to Internet Mail (.eml) messages may not be readable after you export the messages from a review set
    5.  
      Synchronization errors after you rename the SQL Server computer
    6.  
      Performance counter errors when the eDiscovery Manager service starts
    7.  
      SQL Service Broker warning when restoring a customer database to a different server
    8. Issues with Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager
      1.  
        Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager lets you synchronize multiple custodians with the same Active Directory account
      2.  
        Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager does not list the members of a custodian group after you delete the group and then restore it by synchronizing with Active Directory
      3.  
        If a custodian belongs to one Active Directory domain but is a member of a group in a second domain, Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager may not update the custodian's details when it synchronizes with the second domain
      4.  
        Insight eDiscovery Custodian Manager fails to synchronize with Domino LDAP users and groups whose names contain certain double-byte characters
    9.  
      Troubleshooting Privileged Delete failures

Setting eDiscovery system configuration options

eDiscovery provides hundreds of configuration options with which you can customize the appearance and performance of the application. These configuration options are grouped into categories, as Table: Configuration settings by category explains.

Table: Configuration settings by category

Category

Function

Ad Hoc Searches

Configure the searches that users can initiate from their research folders.

Analytics Conversation Analysis

Control how the analytics features in eDiscovery handle items in the same email conversation.

Analytics Data Collection

Control how eDiscovery collects analytics data for the items in a case.

API

Control how third-party tools may exchange data with your eDiscovery database through the eDiscovery application programming interface (API).

Auditing

Specify the Audit Server URL and enable or disable the Enhanced Auditing feature.

If the Enhanced Auditing feature is enabled, the modifications made in the audit modules are recorded and can be viewed or exported later in the eDiscovery web client.

Diagnostics

Enable or disable the eDiscovery troubleshooting facilities.

Document Conversion

Customize the error messages that eDiscovery displays in the Review pane when it cannot open an item in the preview window of that pane.

Export/production

Configure the output when users export or produce items from eDiscovery for offline review.

General

Configure general eDiscovery options.

Home Page

Control the appearance of the Home page of eDiscovery.

Item Prefetch Cache

Configure the primary settings for the eDiscovery prefetch cache mechanism. This mechanism is designed to speed up the rendering of items in the Review pane.

Item Prefetch Cache (Advanced)

Configure advanced settings for the prefetch cache mechanism.

Legal Hold

Configure the eDiscovery Legal Hold mechanism. This mechanism allows case administrators to prevent the documents and messages in their cases from being deleted.

Policy Integration

Integrate eDiscovery with your policy management software to better flag items for inclusion in or exclusion from the review set.

Privileged Delete

Configure the deletion of items from the Enterprise Vault archives.

Profile Synchronization

Control how eDiscovery synchronizes user profiles with the corresponding Active Directory or Domino directory accounts.

Reviewing

Customize the appearance and functionality of the Review pane.

Search

Optimize the search features in eDiscovery.

Security

Choose whether to make the SQL Server sysadmin logon the creator and owner of eDiscovery search schedules.

System

Record the dates on which you installed Enterprise Vault and began to archive data, and more.

Vault Directory Synchronization

Configure when eDiscovery synchronizes with the Enterprise Vault archives.

You must have the Modify System Configuration permission to change the configuration settings. By default, only users with the role of Discovery System Admin have this permission.

To set eDiscovery system configuration options

  1. Click the Configuration tab in the eDiscovery client, and then click the Settings tab.
  2. Click the plus sign at the left of a section name to list the associated settings.

    Alternatively, type some characters in the filter box at the top of the window to search for the configuration options that contain those characters. For example, type Colour to find all the options that contain this word in their names.

  3. For each setting whose value you want to change, do the following in the order listed:

    • Click the value in the Value column.

    • Set the required value.

    • Click outside the Value column.

  4. When you have set all the required options, click Save.
  5. If you have changed any setting that has a tick in its Restart Required column, restart the Enterprise Vault eDiscovery Manager service on the eDiscovery server to put your changes into effect.