Rob Wilcox's blog

A colleague reminded me of an old issue. It’s actually quite a rare Outlook setting, I would say, and it’s not one that I use. Some people use it and love it. The setting is :

“In folders other than the inbox, save replies with original message”

This issue originally came up in early 2010, but I was reminded about it the other day when a colleague asked whether the issue still existed or not. I looked back over my blogs and discovered I didn’t write about it the first time around, so … here goes!

For people that haven’t seen it, take a look at the awesome whitepaper on running Enterprise Vault on VMWare from the Symantec TFE Team.

Following my earlier blogs about an issue with Enterprise Vault and SSL configured on the Enterprise Vault virtual directory in IIS on the EV server, there is now a post 9.0.3 Client hotfix available to correct the issue.

It’s available as:

* DCOM/HTTP variants

* All supported languages

The screenshot above shows a few useful bits of information relating to Virtual Vault and Vault Cache which are stored in a users registry.  In this case it’s my registry on my corporate laptop.  Here is a run through of them:

I have to admit that I like the Enterprise Vault Client Driven PST Migration method.  There are plenty of things which can be done to improve it, but right off the bat, it does a pretty decent job of getting PSTs up to the Enterprise Vault server, from client machines.

To use it effectively there are a number of things to think about:

I wasn't going to do one of those looking back at last years activities in Enterprise Vault-land, but in the end I couldn't resist the temptation.  

I just spotted that Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6 has been released.  As many people will know, the Symantec Enterprise Vault QA and Certification teams don't explicitly test and certify individual rollups, so please ensure that you test it in your environment before going through the upgrade on production machines.

Following on from the discussions around Client Driven PST Migration is a policy setting which I visit quite often in my test environment.  The setting is shown below in the Vault Admin Console:

I looked at an issue the other day where it looked like WMI wasn’t working.  In order to test it, I used the following simple VBScript:

On error resume next

serverDnsName = "exch1.ev.local"