A question which is asked more and more often is how to export an archive back to the original mailbox (or PST) and remove the items from the archive in the process.  It's quite straight forward to do inside the Export Archive wizard. The only thing to remember is that you have choose specific options, as shown below:

If you just choose the 'Export all Items' option, then unfortunately you don't get the option to remove the items from the archive itself. So to get around this you choose to export everything from root ('\') and you can then remove the items from the archive.

The Enterprise Vault System Status information is very useful for giving you a heads-up of what sort of bad things might be happening in your environment. One of the common flags that System Status raises is around backups of the Enterprise Vault databases. The Enterprise Vault System Status page shows when the databases were last backed up, in fact it shows them all:

Directory
Fingerprint, or Vault Store Group database
Vault Store
Monitoring

The data relating to when the last good backup was performed is obtained by query a SQL Server system table, as shown below:

SELECT 
 CONVERT(CHAR(100), SERVERPROPERTY('Servername')) AS Server, 
 msdb.dbo.backupset.database_name, 
 msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_start_date, 
 msdb.dbo.backupset.backup_finish_date, 
 msdb.dbo.backupset.expiration_date, 
 CASE msdb..backupset.type 
 WHEN 'D' THEN 'Database' 
 WHEN 'L' THEN 'Log' 
 END AS backup_type,...

Adept-tec and Symantec are partnering for a great free seminar coverings lots of great information relating to Symantec Enterprise Vault. Symantec will be talking about:

What's new in EV 10.0.4
What's new in EV 11

Adept-tec will be giving some great information relating to improving your Enterprise Vault performance, and, optimising backup and recovery of Enterprise Vault. The Adpet-tec information centres around affordable changes to your environment that can be made quite easily to improve these two aspects which are crucial for the smooth running of Enterprise Vault Exchange Mailbox Archiving. The sessions from Adept-tec will be condensed versions of full-on training that they offer, and whilst the training will go into a lot more detail, I am sure that there will some great information exchanged on the day.

There are two sessions being held, one in the morning of 13th June, the other in the afternoon.

It'll also...