One of the things that people mention about the EV client is that when RPC/HTTP is in use, even in a corporate office environment, the EV client drops-back to "lite" client functionality.  So it means that you don't get to choose which archive you want to manually archive something to, and you don't get the EV information tab on the properties of a folder.
 
The problem is that Outlook doesn't ever tell the extension whether RPC/HTTP is in use, or not.  There is no API, and the developers haven't worked out a way of prising it out of Outlook's information.  So the EV Add-in looks at the Outlook profile, and checks to see if it is configured to use RPC/HTTP at all.   If it is configured, then the "lite" functionality is invoked.
 
This annoys many customers.
 
A fix was introduced (post EV 2007 SP 4 hotfix, included in EV 2007 SP 5, and EV 8 SP 1 onwards) and can be activated by registry...

So here is a SQL script to work out the hourly archiving rate, for the past 24 hours .

You will need to define all the Vault Stores in this query.

USE VaultStore01
SELECT Min(archiveddate) AS ArchivedDate,
 "Hourly Rate for Americas Vault Store 04" = count (*),
 "Av Size" = sum (itemsize)/count (*)
FROM Saveset s
 
WHERE archiveddate > dateadd(hh, -24, getUTCdate ())
GROUP BY LEFT (convert (varchar, s.archiveddate,20),14)
ORDER BY LEFT (convert (varchar, s.archiveddate,20),14) DESC
 
USE VaultStore02
SELECT Min(archiveddate) AS ArchivedDate,
"Hourly Rate for  APJ Vault Store 02" = count (*),
"Av Size" = sum (itemsize)/count (*)
FROM Saveset s

Lots of times I refer back to the EV manuals to see whether something that I “discover” is actually documented.  I have a copy locally on my machine in the office of many of the manuals, from many of the different versions.  I had often wondered about an externalised version of them, and whether they were easy to find.

With the power of Google, I found :

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/277782.htm

That goes back as far as V6, which is the beginning of time (almost) as far as I am concerned

Occassionally my users end up with someone else's shortcut in thier mailbox.  They get there any number of ways: sent as attachements, cross mailbox copying, copying in and out of shared public folders, etc.  And often the user does not have access to the originating archive, so when they open the shortcut, they get the typical access denied error.  After much research, I finally came up with a solution:

• Highlight the shortcut in Outlook
• Hold CTRL + SHIFT, and mouse click on one of the EV buttons (ie, Archive Explorer)
• Click on Vault Inofrmation
• Scroll down to the "Selected Item Properties" section, and find the Saveset ID.
• Copy everything to the right of the last tilda.  This string is called the Transaction ID (you can use the Send To Clipboard button to help with this, or copy the value manually).
• Now you have to modify you modify the Transaction ID to fit the following format: 8 char, dash,...