Today Symantec will announce the release of Enterprise Vault 10.0.2 which includes major changes to our SharePoint agent.   EV has supported SharePoint since 2002 and has always provided storage optimization by replacing documents with 6 byte shortcuts that are completely seamless to the user.  

In EV10.0.2 we extend the agent’s capabilities to also archive custom lists, blogs, wikis, discussion boards and several other list types.  

This new functionality expands the solution in three ways:

1. Further storage optimization – Now EV for SharePoint can replace attachments from supported list and social media with shortcuts dramatically reducing overall SharePoint storage
    
2. Address Site Proliferation – When I speak to SharePoint Administrators, one of their primary concerns is addressing site proliferation.   Sites often long outlive their usefulness yet no one wants to be...

Help us understand your needs and frustrations... 

The Symantec Enterprise Vault Product Management and Engineering teams are constantly striving to improve Enterprise Vault as a product as well as continuously improving your customer experience. As a result, we would like to invite you to give us your candid feedback by completing the survey below by August 31, 2012.

http://survey.confirmit.com/wix/p2166411212.aspx

Your feedback is very important to us; the results will drive toward an improved product, help guide product direction, and possibly result in new feature development. We estimate that the survey will only take 10 to 15 minutes to complete. To thank you for your time, where allowable by law and your organisation’s policies, we will be offering the first 120 customers to complete the survey a $25...

Here’s an interesting dilemma: What would you rather do – get your teeth cleaned at the dentist, or process a search request for your in-house Legal team?

On Monday, June 11, Symantec conducted a survey on the exhibit show floor during Microsoft TechEd North America 2012 in Orlando, FL. There, over 100 qualified respondents were asked a total of 18 questions surrounding their use of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Exchange Online/Office 365.

Surprisingly – or maybe not – over a third of respondents would rather get their teeth cleaned at the dentist than process a search request on email for their in-house Legal team.

We learned from survey respondents that being able to search for archived and un-archived content within Exchange and beyond (45%) was one of their top eDiscovery goals. By indexing all information stored in the archive, Symantec...

We’re pleased to announce that Enterprise Vault 9.0.4 is now available, the release notes are available here.

There are no new features in this release but it does include various hotfixes released since 9.0.3 and also has a number of reliability & stability improvements but obviously refer to the release notes for full details.

As always the 9.0.4 installation software is available from the FileConnect portal, if you're not sure how to do this then here's an excellent article which explains everything you need to know about how to obtain your software & license key file. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH54592

There is also an update compability guide available.

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