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“Just the Facts” on archiving enterprise information in the cloud @ Vision 2013
Amy Dugdale | 10 Apr 2013 | 0 comments

Thinking about archiving your information in the cloud? You likely have questions, such as:

  • Where will our information be stored?
  • What security is used to protect our information in the archive?
  • What is the TCO for a cloud-based archiving solution?
  • Do I still need a third party archive with Office 365 and/or Exchange 2013?

Join Joshua Stageberg from our product management team and me @ Vision 2013 to get the facts about cloud-based information archiving and an overview of Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud.

We will also be joined by two enterprise customers who will share their real-world perspective on moving their organizations’ information archiving to the cloud.

Don’t miss the facts! Register for this session today:

  • Title: IA B26 - Enterprise Information...
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DTrace utility tricks for daily users
Advisor | 02 Apr 2013 | 0 comments

The attached document shows few tricks which you can use in your daily use of DTrace tool to make things easier.

By pressing F7, this will list all the previous processors trace in the current session

DTrace Tricks 1.png

By pressing o will allow you to open the dtrace log without needing to browse to where it was saved

Dtrace Tricks 2.png

 

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Few of Useful TN for routine
captain jack sparrow | 01 Apr 2013 | 0 comments
Enterprise Vault Best Practice Registry Keys and Boot.ini Settings
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH71173
 
How to move Enterprise Vault (EV) indexes that are managed by the same EV server (EV 9.x and earlier)
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH35596
 
How to move the Index location to a different location on the same server (EV 10.x and later)
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO59084
 
How to Move a Vault Store Partition or Vault Store
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH35742
 
How to move a Vault Store and Vault Store partition to a different Enterprise Vault (EV) server in the SAME site.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH47388
 
Commonly needed information to back up Enterprise Vault
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH172279
 
Recommended steps to optimize...
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What does the Enterprise Vault tool EVSPShortcutManager do?
Rob.Wilcox | 01 Apr 2013 | 0 comments

 

Some of the little utilities which come with Enterprise Vault are really quite powerful and useful. Take the EVSPShortcutManager utility, for example. This utility was introduced in Enterprise Vault 9.0.1 and runs on the SharePoint server, rather than the more normal location of the Enterprise Vault server. So what does it do? Read on for more details…

 

The utility allows you to do a number of important and interesting things with your SharePoint archived items. These are:

 

* Replace all HTML shortcuts with seamless shortcuts

 

This is important because prior to Enterprise Vault 8 SP 3 the SharePoint archiving component would archive items from within SharePoint and replace them with a HTML link. These weren't that great to be honest, and broke numerous things like workflows, and any existing links to the document on...

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Business advantages from a good Information Management Approach
robydv | 27 Mar 2013 | 0 comments
 
A good Information Governance approach that include powerful archiving and eDiscovery tools, seems to be useful only for companies working in US or UK and all the countries where internal regulations enforce the implementation of processes that follow the EDRM model. Looking at the South African example doesn't seem to be the case.
 
I just want to recall few points coming from these articles:
 
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Enterprise Vault Security Advisory for File System Archiving
Rob.Wilcox | 26 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

 

It is a pretty rare situation for Enterprise Vault to be involved in a security advisory, but, I spotted this one on the RSS feed the other day. It relates to an unquoted search path and affects Enterprise Vault File System Archiving (FSA).

But fortunately there are fixes.

If you're running Enterprise Vault 8 or earlier, then you need to upgrade to 9.0.4 or higher. If you're coming from a version below Enterprise Vault 8 remember that you'll need to go through each version, in order to get to Enterprise Vault 9 (or higher).

If you're running a version of Enterprise Vault 9, then you need to upgrade to 9.0.4 (which should be nice and straight forward) or to Enterprise Vault 10.0.1 or later.

If you're running Enterprise Vault base release (then you're brave anyway!) and should upgrade to 10.0.1 or higher.

There are some best practices which are described in the first technote, which are something which should...

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Unable to Archive Public Folder Tree with Enterprise Vault
Rob.Wilcox | 23 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

 

Some people might say that it's a minor annoyance, but inconsistencies really bug me.  What am I talking about?  I'm talking about being able to archive a whole folder with the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-in.  Specifically a whole public folder.

 

A few revisions ago when the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-in was extended to support all functionality in the HTTP client, so that all-the-expected-functionality was available for Outlook 2010 and higher, we got back the ability to store a whole folder in an archive:

 

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But, as I found out the other day, you can't do this on a folder inside the Public Folder hierarchy:

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Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 cumulative hotfix 1 release
Rob.Wilcox | 21 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

 

Last night I read a note about the release of Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 Cumulative Hotfix 1.  It's actually not just another release that can be ignored, it's quite important. In the note is this text:

Source ETrack
Value 3011655
Description

Attachment content may not be indexed in certain circumstances when indexes with legacy data are being upgraded

Now at face value it doesn't seem terribly important, but an associated technote gives...

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How to exclude wildcard filenames from Enterprise Vault FSA
Rob.Wilcox | 20 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

 

There are many organisations that want to implement File System Archiving, and each and everyone seems to have an odd request that they want to see accomplished during the evaluation of their archiving strategy. Usually it's straight forward enough such as not archiving items with a particular file extension. FSA with Enterprise Vault can easily do that. An odd one though is not archiving files based on a partial filename match.

For example you may not want to archive files that have 'JET' in their filename. You can do that with Enterprise Vault, by creating a rule like this:

1. Edit the Folder Policy for the place that you want to make the exclusion.

2. On the Rules tab add a new rule, and make sure the rule type is 'Do Not Archive'

3. Make sure the rule is high up in the list, before...

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Exchange Server on Trial at Symantec Vision – What?!!
IMG_Shawn | 19 Mar 2013 | 1 comment

Vision Las Vegas 2013 will offer a wonderful opportunity for you to catch up on all things Symantec. During the many breakout sessions, we will educate you on various aspects of the Symantec product portfolio, but for sheer entertainment AND education, you have to attend session 1A B27, “Exchange Server on trial for crimes against archiving and eDiscovery”, to be presented by the dynamic Symantec duo of Alex Brown and Shawn Aquino, whose “Hangover 2.5” breakout scored the highest ratings among all Vision Las Vegas 2012 sessions last year.

Why? Justice needs to be served.

Intended for IT administrators and IT managers considering the built-in archiving and eDiscovery capabilities of Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2013, the session will highlight that these built-in capabilities are not good enough for most customers. Moreover, we feel Microsoft...

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