Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Setting up Domino Server Archiving

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.2)
  1. About this guide
    1.  
      Introducing this guide
    2. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Setting up Domino mailbox archiving
    1.  
      About Domino mailbox archiving
    2. Preparation for Domino mailbox archiving
      1.  
        Check Enterprise Vault configuration of Domino server
      2.  
        Configure Enterprise Vault for web connections in preparation for Domino mailbox archiving
      3.  
        Vault store group, vault store, and partition in preparation for Domino mailbox archiving
    3. Configuring Domino targets, tasks and policies in Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Checking the list of Domino forms
      2. Adding Domino Server archiving targets
        1.  
          Adding a Domino domain
        2.  
          Adding target Domino mail servers
      3. Configuring mailbox policies for Domino mailbox archiving
        1.  
          General tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        2.  
          Archiving Rules tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        3.  
          Archiving Actions tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        4.  
          Shortcut Content tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        5.  
          Forms tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        6.  
          Shortcut Deletion tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        7.  
          Advanced tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        8.  
          Targets tab (Domino mailbox archiving)
        9. Using customized shortcuts for Domino mailbox archiving
          1.  
            Layout of LotusShortcutText.txt for Domino mailbox archiving
      4.  
        Domino mailbox archiving retention folders
      5. Configuring desktop policies for Domino mailbox archiving
        1.  
          General tab (Domino desktop policy)
        2.  
          Options tab (Domino desktop policy)
        3.  
          Vault Cache tab (Domino desktop policy)
        4.  
          Advanced tab (Domino desktop policy)
        5.  
          Targets tab (Domino desktop policy)
      6.  
        Creating a Domino Provisioning task
      7.  
        Creating a Domino Mailbox task
      8.  
        Reviewing the default settings for the Enterprise Vault site
      9. Adding a Provisioning Group when setting up Domino mailbox archiving
        1.  
          Ordering provisioning groups when setting up Domino mailbox archiving
    4. Installing Enterprise Vault extensions for Notes and DWA clients
      1. About Enterprise Vault clients for Notes and DWA clients
        1.  
          Enterprise Vault extensions for Notes
        2.  
          Enterprise Vault DWA client features
      2.  
        Installing Enterprise Vault client extensions for Notes and DWA clients
      3.  
        Setting up an account to use EVInstall.nsf to set up an Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway
      4.  
        Setting up an account to use EVInstall.nsf to set up a mail server
      5. Granting Execution Control List permissions when setting up Notes and DWA clients
        1.  
          Granting permissions to the account that will run EVInstall.nsf
        2.  
          Granting permissions to the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway server account
        3.  
          Granting permissions to the archiving user account
        4.  
          Granting permissions to users of Vault Cache
      6.  
        Installing the Notes and DWA client extensions
      7. Changes made by EVInstall.nsf when setting up Domino mailbox archiving
        1.  
          EVInstall.nsf changes on Domino 9.0 Enterprise Vault Domino Gateways
        2.  
          EVInstall.nsf changes on Domino 8.5 Enterprise Vault Domino Gateways
        3.  
          EVInstall.nsf changes on Domino 9.0 mail servers
        4.  
          EVInstall.nsf changes on Domino 8.5 mail servers
        5.  
          EVInstall.nsf changes on Domino 8 mail servers
      8.  
        Updating mail files with the new design after installing the Notes and DWA extensions
      9.  
        How users access Enterprise Vault Search features after installing the Notes and DWA extensions
    5.  
      Identifying internal Notes mail recipients
    6. How to edit automatic messages after installing Domino mailbox archiving
      1.  
        Editing the Welcome message after installing Domino mailbox archiving
    7.  
      Enabling mailboxes for archiving after installing Domino mailbox archiving
  3. Setting up a Vault Cache for offline users
    1.  
      About Vault Cache for Domino users
    2. Enabling users for Vault Cache with the Domino Desktop policy
      1.  
        Setting permissions on the Enterprise Vault Domino Gateway when using Vault Cache
    3.  
      Disabling Vault Cache using the Domino Desktop policy
    4. Troubleshooting setting up Vault Cache for Domino
      1.  
        Newly-enabled Vault Cache for Domino is not populated
  4. Setting up Domino Journaling archiving
    1.  
      Preparation for Domino Journaling archiving
    2.  
      Adding a Domino domain
    3.  
      Adding a Domino server
    4.  
      Assigning a vault store for Domino Journaling
    5.  
      Creating a Domino Journal archive
    6.  
      Adding permissions to the Domino journal archive
    7.  
      Creating a Domino Journal policy
    8.  
      Creating a Domino Journaling task
    9.  
      Adding a Domino Journaling location
    10.  
      Identifying internal Notes mail recipients
    11. How to configure clients when setting up Domino Journal archiving
      1.  
        Note on using a Notes client when setting up Domino Journal archiving
  5. Configuring filtering
    1.  
      About filtering
    2. Configuring custom filtering
      1. Configuring registry settings for Domino custom filtering
        1.  
          Enabling Domino mailbox custom filtering
        2.  
          Enabling Domino journal custom filtering
        3.  
          Reprocessing items marked MARK_DO_NOT_ARCHIVE
        4.  
          Ignoring the absence of default filter rules
      2. About custom filtering ruleset files
        1.  
          About the default filter rules file for custom filtering
        2.  
          About named ruleset files for individual Domino provisioning groups and journaling locations
      3. About controlling default custom filtering behavior
        1.  
          Summary of default behavior for custom filtering
      4. About the general format of ruleset files for custom filtering
        1.  
          About validating XML ruleset files for custom filtering
      5. About rule actions for custom filtering
        1.  
          Assigning a retention category for custom filtering
        2.  
          Specifying an archive for custom filtering
      6. About message attribute filters for custom filtering
        1.  
          Message author and recipients filters for custom filtering
        2.  
          About distribution lists in attribute values with custom filtering
        3.  
          About creating complex filters using the INCLUDES and ALLOWOTHERS operators
        4.  
          Message direction filters for custom filtering
        5.  
          Message subject filters for custom filtering
        6.  
          Domino named property filters for custom filtering
      7.  
        Example ruleset file for custom filtering
      8.  
        Configuring custom properties and content categories
      9. About the general format of Custom Properties.xml
        1.  
          About validating Custom Properties.xml
      10.  
        Defining additional Domino message properties in custom properties
      11. About content categories
        1.  
          About assigning content categories in rules when configuring custom properties
        2.  
          Overriding default content category settings
      12. Defining how custom properties are presented in third party applications
        1.  
          Displaying custom properties in an example search application
      13.  
        Summary of custom property elements and attributes

Configuring custom properties and content categories

Custom properties is an extension to custom filtering. It enables you to configure Enterprise Vault to index additional properties on messages that are selected by the custom filters. These properties may be standard properties that a default Enterprise Vault system does not index, or they may be properties added to messages by a proprietary, third party application.

Read this section to find out:

  • How to include in Enterprise Vault indexes additional properties on an item, for example, properties that have been added to messages by third-party applications.

  • How to configure Enterprise Vault Search to enable users to search on these indexed properties.

  • How to configure content categories.

The custom properties feature is an extension to custom filtering that enables Enterprise Vault to access and index additional Domino server properties, that have been added to messages by a third-party application, when archiving items.

Content categories are groups of settings to be applied to messages as they are archived. Settings can include a retention category to be applied, an archive to be used and particular message properties to be indexed. You can configure Enterprise Vault to apply a content category on all messages archived by particular archiving tasks. Alternatively, by using custom filtering together with custom properties, you can configure Enterprise Vault to apply a content category on selected messages only.

You define custom properties and content categories in the XML file, Custom Properties.xml, which must be located in the folder Enterprise Vault\Custom Filter Rules. Additional entries in this file enable you to make the indexed properties available to other applications, for example, Enterprise Vault Search. Users can then include the custom properties in archive search criteria. An example of the custom properties file, Example Custom Properties.xml, is installed in the Custom Filter Rules folder.

If you have special filtering requirements for your archiving system, Veritas can supply the appropriate custom filters.

Table: Steps to configure custom properties or content categories

Step

Action

More information

Step 1

Ensure that the custom filtering registry settings for the required archiving tasks are configured. These need to be set, even if you want to implement custom properties or content categories, without filtering.

See Configuring registry settings for Domino custom filtering.

Step 2

Create the XML file, Custom Properties.xml. Place this file in the folder Enterprise Vault\Custom Filter Rules.

The entries in Custom Properties.xml enable you to do the following:

  • Index custom properties on messages.

  • Define required content categories.

  • Define how custom properties and content categories are displayed in proprietary search applications.

To configure Enterprise Vault to index specific custom properties on all messages, without performing any filtering, create a Custom Properties.xml file but no ruleset file. The Custom Properties.xml file must include definitions of the custom properties and a default content category. The default content category will be applied to all messages and defines which properties Enterprise Vault is to index. This behavior can be altered using the IGNORENODEFAULT registry setting.

Step 3

If you want to index the properties on selected messages or apply content categories to selected messages, create the required filter rules and actions in XML ruleset files. These are held in one or more XML ruleset files, which must also be placed in the folder, Enterprise Vault\Custom Filter Rules.

Step 4

Restart the archiving tasks that have custom properties and filters enabled.

More Information

About the general format of Custom Properties.xml

About controlling default custom filtering behavior

Configuring custom filtering