The requirements for Enterprise Vault are a little more in-depth on Windows 2008 R2. Here’s a great post that shows what is needed in IIS when installing the EV server on Windows 2008 R2.
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH71400&key=50996&actp=LIST
Enterprise Vault v9 was officially released today! This post has all of the latest informational links as well as some information found on the web and from the ReadMe file included with EV 9.
A quick “What’s New”:
– Comprehensive support for Exchange 2010 SP1 (SP1 support for Mailbox, Journal and Public Folder
archiving along with OWA integration)
– SharePoint 2010 Support
– Domino 8.5.1 Support
– Domino Mail-in Database Support
– Domino Shortcut Expiry
– Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector (allows for indexing and classification of data beyond the archive
to include a full spectrum of enterprise sources)
– Discovery Accelerator De-Dupe (intelligently refine discovery search results and exclude duplicate data to significantly increase legal review efficiency)
– Support for Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition
– Support for Entourage 2008 on Snow Leopard
– DELL DX Object Storage Platform Support
– Symantec™ FileStore and N8000 Support
– System Status and EV Online
– FSAUtility new options (placeholder migration and bulk file recall)
– FSA Reporting improved performance and scalability
Key Features:
– Optimized Single-Instance-Storage
– Seamless End-User Experience
– Collection of Unstructured Electronically-Stored Information
– Intuitive Electronic Discovery with Guided Review
– Comprehensive Support for Exchange 2010 SP1 (SP1 support for Mailbox, Journal and Public Folder
archiving along with OWA integration)
– Simplified Installation and Administration
– Flexible .PST and .NSF Migration
– Open Storage Layer
EV 9 Release Details:
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337277
Release Notes:
Enterprise Vault 9.0 – http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/358351
Compliance Accelerator 9.0 – http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/358352
Discovery Accelerator 9.0 – http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/358353
How to obtain the installation download and license keys for Enterprise Vault.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866.htm
Version Upgrade Notification FAQ.
http://www.symantec.com/business/products/upgrades/faq/index.jsp#Q2
Late Breaking News Bulletin for Enterprise Vault 9.0
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/355550.htm
Enterprise Vault 9.0 sizing and performance, see the Enterprise Vault Performance Guide (http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/345618).
Here’s some of the points on what’s new and updated in Enterprise Vault 9, followed by some of the information found in the EV 9 Readme file:
Exchange Server 2010 support
Virtual Vault thresholds to trigger Vault Cache synchronization
SharePoint Server archiving
File System Archiving
Enterprise Vault Reporting and FSA Reporting
Mac OS X support
Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition
Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector
When the Virtual Vault policy is set to allow users to move or copy items from their mailboxes into Virtual Vault to archive them, the items exist only on the user’s computer until they are archived by Vault Cache synchronization. Two new Virtual Vault advanced settings in the Exchange desktop policy let you control when Vault Cache synchronization occurs, so you can minimize the risk of data loss.
The settings are Threshold number of items to trigger synchronization and Threshold total size of items to trigger synchronization. They specify thresholds for the number and total size of pending archive items in Virtual Vault. Each setting triggers an automatic Vault Cache synchronization if it is reached or exceeded. By default, the threshold settings are not active.
For more information, see the Setting up Vault Cache and Virtual Vault chapter in the Setting up Exchange Server Archiving manual.
The following SharePoint Server archiving features are new for Enterprise Vault 9.0:
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Enterprise Vault 9.0 includes the following new Domino archiving features:
FSAUtility includes a new -b option to perform bulk recall of files corresponding to placeholders in a folder or volume. This option also allows you perform a bulk recall of files recursively from subfolders.
FSAUtility includes a new -pm option to migrate placeholders and archive points from a source folder structure to a destination folder structure. The option is intended for file server consolidations and migrations. Placeholders are moved between volumes or file servers. The option does not move any archived data. This allows for efficient migrations.
Do not use the -pm option when the movement of archived data is required. Use the existing -m option if you want to move archives, consolidate vault stores, or align archives with file servers.
Note: We strongly recommend that when you use the -pm option you specify a destination path that has never been archived from. No archive points should exist on the destination folder structure. Otherwise a source archive point can be merged with a destination archive point. A merge of archive points can result in a split archive, in which the files with the migrated placeholders are in a different vault store from the other archived files. Split archives should be avoided.
For additional restrictions that apply to FSAUtility, see File System Archiving issues.
FSAUndelete is a new command line utility that cancels the permanent deletion of the archived items for specified placeholders, or for all of the placeholders in a specified folder of a file server.
For more information, see the chapter on FSAUndelete in the Utilities guide.
Support is now provided for the coexistence of non-Enterprise Vault reports with Enterprise Vault Reporting on the same Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services server.
FSA Reporting includes several changes to improve scalability and performance. The changes include:
New and updated wizards provide guided workflow for the configuration of FSA Reporting, including the assignment of FSA Reporting databases and proxy servers to file server targets.
For more information, see the Reporting guide.
You can now use the Enterprise Vault Client for Mac OS X with the following versions of Mac OS X:
Enterprise Vault 9.0 includes client access for Microsoft Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition. Users can now access archived information and search using the Enterprise Vault Client for Mac OS X.
Enterprise Vault 9.0 supports Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector, an add-on for Enterprise Vault that addresses your eDiscovery needs during the identification, collection, and preservation phases of eDiscovery. Discovery Collector extends indexing and classification of data beyond the archive, enabling targeted collection and preservation of active content from laptops and desktops, network servers, storage systems, and application repositories. Discovery Collector allows active content collected from unmanaged content stores to be stored for preservation in Enterprise Vault, leveraging the storage benefits of Enterprise Vault and the discovery analysis and review capabilities of Discovery Accelerator.
Full documentation for Discovery Collector is included with the product.
Here’s several very useful links to information that customers can use to find out more about EV.
The below information was taken from the official EV blog, here:
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/essential-links-ev-information
EV Product Team Blog – Where the PM team posts useful info about EV, tips, tricks & SPs http://www.symantec.com/connect/symantec-blogs/enterprise-vault
Customer Forum – A place for EV related discussions and Q&A. This is an active forum with contributions from Symantec employees and other EV customers – well worth keeping an eye on…also has an RSS feed. http://www.symantec.com/connect/backup-and-archiving/forums/enterprise-vault
Documentation – A one stop shop for documentation for current & previous releases
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/277782.htm
Performance Guide – an in depth look at the various aspects of EV performance http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/312319.htm
Enterprise Vault Compatibility List (includes Partner products) – Explains what versions of what are compatible with the various releases of EV – an essential upgrade planning guide http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276547
How to Obtain EV Software & License Keys
Here’s a video that I ran across which explains and shows more about the new archiving feature (powered by Symantec Enterprise Vault) within Backup Exec 2010.
http://video.symantec.com/services/player/bcpid39584950001?bctid=64058504001
Symantec has released Service Pack 4 for Enterprise Vault 8.0, Discovery Accelerator 8.0 and Compliance Accelerator 8.0 on April 21, 2010.
This release should be considered a recommended update for Enterprise Vault.
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 documentation- http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/350758
Compliance Accelerator 8.0 SP4 documentation – http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/350770
Discovery Accelerator 8.0 SP4 documentation – http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/350771
How can Symantec Enterprise Vault customers access this release?
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP 4 is a full product release and can only be obtained from the Symantec Licensing Portal. http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 provides the following new features:
· Move Archive Wizard
Enterprise Vault’s new Move Archive wizard lets you move content from existing mailbox archives and journal archives to new archives or existing archives in other vault stores. You can use the wizard to move archives between vault stores in one site and, in the case of mailbox archives, between two sites. This includes moves between two sites that are controlled by different Enterprise Vault directories.
Move Archive supports the move of archives between source and destination servers that are running Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 or later.
Before you start, read the section called Moving archives in the Administrator’s Guide for detailed information about this new feature.
The Enterprise Vault Administration Console now includes a Status display that shows the results of the most recent monitoring checks.
Enterprise Vault automatically runs checks to monitor the health of the Enterprise Vault system. If any check finds a problem Enterprise Vault displays an alert in the Status pane of the Administration Console.
The Status display provides the quickest way for you to check the health of the Enterprise Vault system. There is help on how to fix each problem that is shown in the Status display.
The monitoring checks that System Status uses are those that are enabled on the Monitoring tab of the Site properties. You can customize the monitoring checks as required on the Monitoring tab.
See the ‘Automatic Monitoring’ chapter in the Administrator’s Guide.
Note that the System Status display requires .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or a later service pack to be installed on the computer that is running the Administration Console. There is no support for .NET Framework 4
The Enterprise Vault Administration Console now includes ‘Enterprise Vault Online’ in the tree view.
Enterprise Vault Online provides a page with links to many online Enterprise Vault resources, including the Enterprise Vault Compatibility Charts, white papers, data sheets, a knowledge base, and discussion forums.
Use Enterprise Vault Online as a quick means to find information about Enterprise Vault
You can now use an Enterprise Vault server as a proxy server for Enterprise Vault requests from Outlook Anywhere clients. The Enterprise Vault proxy server forwards Enterprise Vault requests to the Enterprise Vault server that hosts the archive. An Enterprise Vault proxy server is useful in the following situations:
Note The Enterprise Vault proxy server can only be used to manage connections from Outlook Anywhere clients. It cannot be used for other types of connections, such as OWA.
For information on how to configure an Enterprise Vault proxy server, see the chapter, Configuring access to Enterprise Vault from Outlook RPC over HTTP clients, in Setting up Exchange Server Archiving.
Information Management Group Product BLOGS
https://forums.symantec.com/blog?blog.id=EV_team_blog (Enterprise Vault)
https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board?board.id=106 (EV Discussion Forum)
https://forums.symantec.com/blog?blog.id=messaging_security (Mail Security)
Service Pack 3 for Enterprise Vault 8.0 has been released.
This release should be considered a recommended update for Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, FSA, Sharepoint & SMTP and Accelerators
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP3 provides the following new features:
Added Support and Enhancements
How can Symantec Enterprise Vault customers access this release?
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP 3 is a full product release and can only be obtained from the Symantec Licensing Portal. http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866
I’ve heard several “rumblings” from Microsoft as well as other “Archiving Solution” vendors regarding their take on Exchange 2010’s built-in archiving features.
I thought Martin over at Archiving101.com has posted a great write-up about this topic. If you are considering on waiting for Exchange 2010’s archiving capability to do your corporate archiving and E-Discovery, I’d recommend you take a look at his post.
http://www.archiving101.com/?p=178
Take care!
Here’s a concise listing of all of the EV manuals and technotes.
The Compatibility List is available only on-line and applies to all product versions. Here is the link:
Symantec Enterprise Vault ™ 6.0, 7.0, 2007 and 8.0 Compatibility List (includes Partner products)
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276547
Enterprise Vault 8 Manuals
Core Guides
| TechNote Number | Document Link | File Name |
| 317272 | Administrators Guide | Administrators_Guide.pdf Administrators_Guide.chm |
| 328215 | Administrators Guide 8.0 SP2 | Administrators_Guide.pdf Administrators_Guide.chm |
| 312327 | Backup procedures | |
| 317273 | Introduction and Planning Guide | Introduction_and_Planning.pdf Introduction_and_Planning.chm |
| 328448 | Introduction and Planning Guide SP2 | Introduction_and_Planning.pdf Introduction_and_Planning.chm |
| 312319 | Performance Guide | |
| 317276 | Setting_up_Domino_Server_Archiving | Setting_up_Domino_Server_Archiving.pdf Setting_up_Domino_Server_Archiving.chm |
| 317278 | Setting up Exchange Server Archiving | Setting_up_Exchange_Server_Archiving.pdf Setting_up_Exchange_Server_Archiving.chm |
| 328473 | Setting up Exchange Server Archiving SP2 | Setting_up_Exchange_Server_Archiving.pdf Setting_up_Exchange_Server_Archiving.chm |
| 317287 | Setting_up_File_System_Archiving | Setting_up_File_System_Archiving.pdf Setting_up_File_System_Archiving.chm |
| 317288 | Setting_up_SharePoint_Server_Archiving | Setting_up_SharePoint_Server_Archiving.pdf Setting_up_SharePoint_Server_Archiving.chm |
| 317290 | Setting_up_SMTP_Archiving | Setting_up_SMTP_Archiving.pdf Setting_up_SMTP_Archiving.chm |
| 317274 | Registry Guide | Registry_Guide.pdf Registry_Guide.chm |
| 328465 | Registry Guide SP2 | Registry_Guide.pdf Registry_Guide.chm |
| 321591 | Troubleshooting OWA Extensions for EV 8 | |
| 317275 | Utilities Guide | Utilities_Guide.pdf Utilities_Guide.chm |
| 328471 | Utilities Guide SP2 | Utilities_Guide.pdf Utilities_Guide.chm |
| 327522 | Housekeeping for the Monitoring Database | |
| 326694 | Guidelines on using EVSVR | |
| 328452 | Mobile Search Getting Started Guide | |
| 328467 | Reporting Guide SP2 |
Install/Upgrade
| TechNote Number | Document Link | File Name |
| 328438 | Deployment Scanner 8 SP2 | Deployment_Scanner.pdf Deployment_Scanner.chm |
| 317303 | Deployment Scanner | Deployment_Scanner.pdf Deployment_Scanner.chm |
| 317266 | Installing and Configuring Guide | Installing_and_Configuring.pdf Installing_and_Configuring.chm |
| 328439 | Installing and Configuring Guide SP2 | Installing_and_Configuring.pdf Installing_and_Configuring.chm |
| 298949 | Release Notes 8.0 | |
| 321953 | Release Notes 8.0 SP1 | |
| 328525 | Release Notes 8.0 SP2 |
Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator 8 Manuals
A common question about Symantec’s Netbackup and Backup Exec platform are the ability to support deduplication. Netbackup has Netbackup Puredisk functionality but deduplication has been a little lacking in the Backup Exec world. Well, that will soon change.
According to this Symantec press release, the Puredisk deduplication technology will soon make it’s way into Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault and other Symantec products:
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20090707_01
Another post that I found regarding deduplication that might be useful to customers is at:
http://symantec.dciginc.com/2008/11/symantec-netbackup-takes-the-d.html
From the Press Release:
Symantec is moving deduplication closer to information sources by integrating the technology into its information management platforms: NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault, and centrally managing native deduplication as well as third-party deduplication appliances.
Symantec is delivering on its deduplication strategy with a multi-phased approach:
- Integrated deduplication is available today in NetBackup and Enterprise Vault, offering deduplicated archiving, deduplicated backup storage and global deduplicated remote office backup.
- NetBackup currently offers integrated, centralized management for third-party deduplicated storage from Data Domain, Quantum, Falconstor and EMC through the OpenStorage API.
- NetBackup PureDisk 6.6, scheduled to be available later this year, will improve storage efficiency by adding enhanced deduplication for backups of virtual server images.
- Backup Exec 2010, scheduled to be available later this year, will integrate deduplication (using NetBackup PureDisk technology) into both backup clients and Backup Exec media server. Backup Exec will also add the OpenStorage API to manage third-party deduplication appliances.
- NetBackup 7, scheduled to be available in 2010, will integrate deduplication into the backup client and NetBackup media server.
Today Symantec announced that Service Pack 2 for Enterprise Vault 8.0, Discovery Accelerator 8.0 and Compliance Accelerator 8.0 has been released.
This release should be considered a recommended update for Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, FSA, Sharepoint & SMTP and Accelerators
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP2 provides the following new features:
Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP 2 is a full product release and can only be obtained from the Symantec Licensing Portal. http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866
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