Comparing DCOM and HTTP Outlook Add-ins for Enterprise Vault
When it comes to the Enterprise Vault Outlook Addin, an often asked question is:
What are the differences between the DCOM and HTTP Outlook Add-ins?
Of course, as many people know, these became merged with the Enterprise Vault 10.0.1 Unified Outlook Add-in. Since then there is only one Outlook Add-in, but prior to that there were indeed two versions of the client, and people often wondered about the differences.
Here is a table which compares them:
|
DCOM |
HTTP |
|
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Ability to archive a single item |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Ability to restrict archiving to only those message classes defined in the archiving policy |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Ability to archive a whole folder |
Yes |
Yes *1 |
|
Ability to archive to a particular archive/retention category |
Yes |
No |
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Ability to restore an item |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Ability to restore to a specific folder |
Yes |
No |
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Ability to see Enterprise Vault properties on a folder, item, or mailbox |
Yes |
No |
|
Ability to forward multiple archived items |
Yes |
No *1 |
Notes
*1 - You can not do this if the Add-in is installed on Outlook 2010.
From looking at the table you can see that in many ways the DCOM client is superior, because of all the additional features. That is true, but for some people the sheer simplicity of the HTTP client is all that is required. It does work in many more customer scenarios than the DCOM one.
Which would you go for? Hopefully the answer to that is the 10.0.1 Unified Client!
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Thanks for the post Rob. Additional information and how to control behaviour can be found here:
Differences between the DCOM and HTTP versions of the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-Ins.
Tony Sterling
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Offices in the US and the UK
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