As you may have seen, recently the U.S. Justice Department approved a request to use predictive coding eDiscovery software, to sort through documents in the merger of Anheuser-Busch InBev and Grupo Modelo. Typically, cases as large as these require legal counsel to sift through millions of electronic documents in search of relevant information—an endeavor that is not only time consuming, but extremely expensive.

But innovative eDiscovery software has now reached a level of sophistication whereby computers can be trained to hunt for concepts the same way human lawyers do.

In the Anheuser-Busch case, the opposing sides discovered hundreds of thousands of documents using eDiscovery software—and spent 50% less than they would have using traditional methods. (And when 50% equates to a few million dollars—it’s easily enough to turn the heads of government agencies, their IT departments, and their legal counsel.)

Having given predictive coding...

2013-04-05 23:59:59 192.168.145.167 GET /EnterpriseVault/download.asp VaultID=18A5257C941B9A84F8A6CA597937F3B611110000evsql.ev.local&SaveSetID=201304287177491~201304081913380000~Z~D006154F7F2EA1F13C9DC57A4D6D4C81&FormatType=Unicode&Client=EV10.0.3.1090-Outlook14&Format=MUD&AttachmentID=0...

When you use Enterprise Vault to export mailbox archives back to the original location or out to a PST file, Enterprise Vault processes the requests sequentially. This means that if you have a list of 10 or 20 or 100 mailbox archives that you want to export it can take some time to process them all. Below I'll describe an option to export them in parallel. It should be noted however that doing this may not mean that they are exported any faster, as there are other limits which will come in to play, such as storage speed and so on.

As mentioned above, the export process goes through each requested mailbox sequentially:

And that can take some time... especially if one or more of the mailbox archives is very large. The smaller exports then get stuck behind the big one.

What you can do though is when the first export starts running, you can click on...

Have you ever had a strange build up of temporary files on your Enterprise Vault Server?  Strange in that they're all the same size, and appear in a long row of sorts? Well the explanation might be that Enterprise Vault is trying to process a problem message.  The situation is described in this technote:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH206368

I know that issues like this are super tricky to find, and to fix, but really this could lead to quite a bad situation on your Enterprise Vault server. Have you ever had any issues with stuck/problematic messages, let me know in the comments below: