Enterprise Vault™ Guide for Outlook Users (Full Functionality)

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (14.2)
  1. Introducing Veritas Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault and your Outlook mailbox
    2.  
      About Vault Cache for Outlook users
    3.  
      About Virtual Vault for Outlook users
    4.  
      About working offline with Enterprise Vault
    5.  
      About selection of items to archive
    6.  
      About retention of archived items
    7.  
      About retention folders
    8.  
      About Enterprise Vault and Outlook conversations
  2. Setting up Enterprise Vault
    1.  
      About setting up Enterprise Vault in Outlook
    2.  
      Setting up your Vault Cache and Virtual Vault
    3.  
      Showing or hiding your Virtual Vault
    4.  
      Turning off your Outlook AutoArchive
  3. Enterprise Vault options and mailbox icons
    1.  
      Enterprise Vault options on the Outlook ribbon
    2.  
      Enterprise Vault page in Outlook Backstage view
    3.  
      Enterprise Vault Office Mail App (Outlook 2013 and later)
    4.  
      Enterprise Vault Outlook mailbox icons
  4. Working with archived items
    1.  
      Viewing your archived items
    2.  
      Searching for your archived items
    3.  
      Replying to and forwarding your archived items
    4. Deleting your archived items
      1.  
        Deleting items and folders from a Virtual Vault
      2.  
        Canceling deletion of your archived items
    5.  
      Sharing the items in your vault
  5. Storing and restoring items
    1.  
      Storing your items manually
    2.  
      Storing your folders manually
    3.  
      Restoring your archived items
    4.  
      Canceling your archiving and restore operations
  6. Managing Enterprise Vault archiving
    1.  
      Synchronizing your Vault Cache
    2.  
      Viewing and changing your Vault Cache properties
    3.  
      How Enterprise Vault sets your folder properties
    4.  
      Setting the Enterprise Vault properties of a mailbox or folder
    5.  
      Suspending or enabling archiving for your mailbox
  7. PST file migration
    1.  
      About PST file migration
    2.  
      Migrating PST files to Enterprise Vault
    3.  
      Submitting PST files for migration

Setting the Enterprise Vault properties of a mailbox or folder

You may be able to change the archiving settings for a mailbox, mailbox folder, or public folder. Among the settings that you can change, if you have the required permissions, are the following:

  • Whether Enterprise Vault archives the items in this mailbox or folder

  • The default retention category to assign to the items in your mailbox or a mailbox folder

  • For a folder:

    • How old items must be before Enterprise Vault archives them

    • Whether Enterprise Vault deletes items after archiving them

    • Whether Enterprise Vault creates shortcuts to archived items

    • Whether Enterprise Vault archives unread items

If the Change option is not available, there are no settings that you can change.

To set the Enterprise Vault properties of a mailbox

  1. In the Outlook Navigation Pane, right-click the mailbox and then click Data File Properties.
  2. In the Mailbox Properties, click the Enterprise Vault tab to display the current settings.
  3. Click Change.
  4. Choose the required options. Your administrator may have locked the settings to prevent you from changing them.

    For a description of each option, click Help in the Enterprise Vault - Change Properties dialog box.

  5. Click OK in the Enterprise Vault - Change Properties dialog box.
  6. Click OK or Apply in the Mailbox Properties.

To set the Enterprise Vault properties of a folder

  1. In the Outlook Navigation Pane, right-click the folder and then click Properties.
  2. In the Folder Properties, click the Enterprise Vault tab to display the current settings.
  3. Click Change.
  4. Choose the required options. The available options vary according to the selected folder. Your administrator may have locked the settings to prevent you from changing them.

    For a description of each option, click Help in the Enterprise Vault - Change Properties dialog box.

  5. Click OK in the Enterprise Vault - Change Properties dialog box.
  6. Click OK or Apply in the Folder Properties.

More Information

About selection of items to archive

How Enterprise Vault sets your folder properties

Suspending or enabling archiving for your mailbox