Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning
- About this guide
- Introduction
- Overview of Enterprise Vault
- How Enterprise Vault works
- About Enterprise Vault indexing
- About Enterprise Vault tasks
- About Enterprise Vault services
- About the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In
- About Enterprise Vault Search
- Enterprise Vault administration
- About reporting and monitoring in Enterprise Vault
- Exchange Server archiving
- Exchange Public Folder archiving
- File System Archiving
- Archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
- Domino mailbox archiving
- Domino Journal archiving
- SMTP Archiving
- Skype for Business Archiving
- Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- About Compliance Accelerator
- About Discovery Accelerator
- Building in resilience
- Planning component installation
- Where to set up the Enterprise Vault Services and Tasks
- Installation planning for client components
- Planning your archiving strategy
- How to define your archiving policy for user mailboxes
- How to plan the archiving strategy for Exchange public folders
- How to plan settings for retention categories
- How to plan vault stores and partitions
- About Enterprise Vault reports
How to plan enabling mailboxes
You have the option of automatically enabling new mailboxes for archiving. If you choose this option, all mailboxes that are new to Enterprise Vault are treated in the same way, using the defaults set for the provisioning group. The archives that are automatically created for the newly enabled mailboxes are stored in the default vault store and items in the mailboxes are assigned the default Retention Category. Items in the mailboxes are indexed according to the default Indexing settings.
If you think that some users will want to change the archiving defaults, you can initially suspend archiving for the new mailboxes that have been automatically enabled. Archiving does not start until the user of the new mailbox enables archiving. This gives users the opportunity to change the archiving defaults.
When you first start using Enterprise Vault, you should gradually introduce users to Enterprise Vault. You are recommended to initially choose not to automatically enable new mailboxes. This way you can control the number of users who use Enterprise Vault and can assess your requirements and the performance of Enterprise Vault. Use the Enable Mailbox wizard in the Administration Console to enable mailboxes manually.
As you get more familiar with your usage of Enterprise Vault and can predict the resources that are required, then you can choose to automatically enable new mailboxes for archiving.