Thanks Rob. Love the scripts you provide us. ANy idea on impact, time, transaction log growth in Exchange or anything like that?

You are welcome.

I've not done any kind of exhaustive testing, but ...

Impact -> Similar to if a user were logging in and creating a cached mode Outlook profile.  Every mail item, in every folder will be touched one time.

Time -> I have a mailbox with 10,250 items in it.  To scan that took : 26 seconds.  I also have a mailbox with 20,250 items in it.  To scan that took : 41 seconds

TL Growth -> None, since it's reads of the Exchange store.  At least there 'shouldn't be any'.  In my *brief* testing, I didn't see any logs created whilst scanning the 10,000 item mailbox nore the 20,000 item mailbox.

It could be made more efficient, by using Redemption for example.  This is just 'simple' CDO stuff.

Thanks Rob!

However, it is not clear how come can be different:

- the number (and size) of "pending items"

- the "PENDING" EV message class.

Please, have a look at the report performed in my POC:

Number of pending items : 856

Pending items size : 2554903 Byes, 2495.02 Kbytes, 2.44 Mb

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Summary by Message Class:

IPM.NOTE.ENTERPRISEVAULT.PENDINGARCHIVE - 1 - Size: 3387 bytes, 0 Mb

IPM.NOTE.ENTERPRISEVAULT.PENDINGARCHIVE.ARCHIVEME - 2 - Size: 4419 bytes, 0 Mb

Am I missing something?

Looks like you have discovered a bug ..  how rude of me to include one ;-)

The problem is around this:

It should be :

Hi there, looks like this script could be really useful. However, when I try and run it I get:

c:\Scripts\Scan_mailbox.wsf(138, 2) Windows Script Host: Unterminated entity ref
erence - matching ';' not found

Any ideas??

Cheers

Adrian

Yep.. it's not a WSF file.

It's vbscript.  I've updated the instructions at the top post.

Rob, 

BTW - Great post! 

I'm looking for some documentation on an api to access EV. I noticed you used CDO here and vbscript. Can you please point me to any documentation that lists the api, use, files, etc; ?

I am a consultant trying to build a migration tool for EV. Currently do not have access to EV but need to read up on api, integration and other EV programming topics.

Any help would be awesome.

thanks

paul

paul.ford@mavenwave.com

Hi Paul,

EV does indeed have an API (or two).  There is an API for searching content in EV, and an API for doing 'stuff' with content, ie ingesting new content.

Both of these are covered in the API guide, but in order to get that you need to be a registered with STEP (which I think is Symantec Technology Enabled Partner)... and it costs a fair amount of money.

There are plenty of partners that lurk on the boards here, who you could contact for more information, or, if there is a general request, then you could post the question in the forums.

I'd suggest before leaping in though, that you need a reasonable knowledge of EV.

Hope that helps,

Does this script work for Outlook 2010 ? (32-bit)

I ran it without installing CDO and get " Microsoft VBScript runtime error: ActiveX component can't create object: 'MAPI.Session' "

If I try and install CDI I get "Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 cannot be installed unless Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is also installed"

Thank you

This is not my script but I do not think it will work against that version of Outlook. Same reasons that EV does not, BES does not, and pretty much any other MAPI driven utility requires Outlook 2007 or prior.

to hubbardt, yes you need Outlook 2007 or earlier.

Some of the scripts that I'm doing now are using the Redemption library, which gets around the Outlook version issue, and doesn't use CDO at all.

Hi Rob.

I have Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise server (x64) with Outlook 2007 SP3 and have installed CDO 1.2.1 successfully. However, when I try to run your script using cscript scanner_new.vbs, I get the following error no matter what I do.

 "Microsoft VBScript runtime error: ActiveX component can't create object: 'MAPI.Session' " which points to line 16; set objSession = CreateObject("MAPI.Session")

Am I missing something?  I even tried to install the MAPI version of CDO on a machine without Outlook and still get the above message. I even registered CDO.DLL with regsvr32 with no luck.

Thanks in advance.

Is there any chance we could get this written for exchange 2010 server 2008R2 ? It would be really helpfull to know why enterprise vault is not vaulting so many items in a mailbox and what they are ?