Enterprise Vault™ Classification using the Microsoft File Classification Infrastructure

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (14.4)
  1. About this guide
    1. Introducing this guide
      1.  
        Relationship between FCI classification and other classification methods
    2. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Getting started
    1.  
      About classification
    2.  
      Overview of the procedure for setting up classification
    3.  
      Prerequisites for classification
    4.  
      Roles-based administration (RBA) and the classification feature
    5. How Enterprise Vault caches the items that it submits for classification
      1.  
        Limits on the size of classification files
      2.  
        Checking the cache location on the Enterprise Vault storage servers
      3.  
        Configuring Enterprise Vault to keep the classification files in the cache folder
  3. Setting up the classification properties
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault classification properties
    2.  
      Setting up the Enterprise Vault classification properties manually
    3.  
      Checking the Folder Usage classification property
    4.  
      How classification property values and retention categories interact
    5.  
      Setting up new values for the Enterprise Vault classification properties
    6.  
      Points to note on setting retention categories
  4. Configuring your classification rules
    1.  
      About classification rules
    2.  
      About the example classification rules
    3.  
      Importing the example rule set
    4.  
      Creating or changing classification rules
    5.  
      Supported configuration parameters for rules that use the Veritas Information Classifier method
  5. Defining and applying classification policies
    1.  
      About classification policies
    2.  
      Defining classification policies
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with classification policies
    4.  
      Associating classification policies with retention plans
    5.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with retention plans
    6.  
      Applying retention plans to your Enterprise Vault archives
  6. Running classification in test mode
    1.  
      About classification test mode
    2.  
      Implementing classification test mode
    3.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for running classification in test mode
    4.  
      Understanding the classification test mode reports
  7. Publishing classification properties and rules across your site
    1.  
      How to publish the classification properties and rules
  8. Using classification with smart partitions
    1.  
      About smart partitions
    2.  
      How Enterprise Vault determines whether to archive an item to a smart partition
    3.  
      Setting up smart partitions
    4.  
      Verifying that Enterprise Vault has archived items to smart partitions
  9. Appendix A. Enterprise Vault properties for use in classification rules
    1.  
      About the Enterprise Vault properties
    2.  
      System properties
    3.  
      Attachment properties
    4.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties
    5.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for File System Archiving items
    6.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for SharePoint items
    7.  
      Custom Enterprise Vault properties for Compliance Accelerator-processed items
    8.  
      Custom properties for use by policy management software
    9.  
      Custom properties for Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
  10. Appendix B. PowerShell cmdlets for use with classification
    1.  
      About the classification cmdlets
    2.  
      Disable-EVClassification
    3.  
      Get-EVClassificationFCITags
    4.  
      Get-EVClassificationPolicy
    5.  
      Get-EVClassificationStatus
    6.  
      Get-EVClassificationTestMode
    7.  
      Import-EVClassificationFCIRules
    8.  
      New-EVClassificationPolicy
    9.  
      Publish-EVClassificationFCIRules
    10.  
      Remove-EVClassificationPolicy
    11.  
      Set-EVClassificationPolicy
    12.  
      Set-EVClassificationTestMode
  11. Appendix C. Monitoring and troubleshooting
    1.  
      Auditing
    2.  
      Checking the classification performance counters
    3.  
      Troubleshooting classification

About smart partitions

Earlier versions of Enterprise Vault archived all items to a single, open vault store partition on a storage device. In Enterprise Vault 12.3 and later, you can archive different items to different partitions, depending on how Enterprise Vault has classified the items. For example, if you have configured the classification engine to detect and tag items that contain personally identifiable information (PII), you can choose to archive these items to one partition. Other types of items, such as bids and business proposals, can be archived to a different partition.

These classification-related partitions are called smart partitions. They are identical to standard vault store partitions except in the following ways:

  • Using the Vault Administration Console, you can associate a smart partition with one or more classification tags that you have defined in your chosen classification engine (Veritas Information Classifier or Microsoft File Classification Infrastructure). Only items to which the classification engine has assigned the chosen tags are archived to the smart partition.

  • Multiple smart partitions can be open for archiving at the same time. This is not true of standard vault store partitions, which are limited to one open partition for each vault store.

  • You can configure a standard vault store partition so that Enterprise Vault automatically rolls over to the next available partition when certain criteria are met. This rollover capability is not available for smart partitions.

As with standard vault store partitions, you can create smart partitions on any storage device that Enterprise Vault supports.