Just in case anyone is interested I have just finished an implementation of KVS Vault (or Symantec Vault or Veritas Vault – whatever it is called today) – if you or your company are interested in my thoughts / impressions of the product or indeed the way in which it is integrated into Exchange please comment and let me know.
At some point I will be posting some technical information on the product (for example how you can deploy the client using GP, and how you can enable the Vault for users via a script) – but in the mean time I am happy to answer some real world questions on what it is all about.
Cheers
HYI,
I am at the dawn of a new EV 2007 implemetation. I am rumbling around with Exchange 2007 sand sa recieve as permisiions. I found somwhere on the net a powershell cmd for setting the permissions on the store level (which is required) but the Deployment scanner still reports the rights as un-enbaled! any thoughts!
By: Alexs on July 30, 2007
at 8:36 am
hi Andy,
I am searching for good archiving solution for one of my client.
Users : 14XXX
Database size approximately : 4 TB
90% need to be archived and Exchange is 2003.
SQL is recommended to have for mail archiver (if so why)
And which vendor will be best for my current topoology considering the cost and storage wise.
Is it possible i can get rid of SQL.
Please let me know your concern
By: Ismail on February 20, 2008
at 2:07 pm
I walked into a shop that already had it deployed. Not for compliance, but for ‘extended mailbox’. Here are the issues I have:
1.) No way to script an export of an entire mailbox to PST
2.) No way to script an on-demand ‘full archive’ of a user’s mailbox. (We’d like to do this when someone quits or is leaving, this way we can simply full-archive their mailbox immediately and make their KVS store ROnly to prevent them from deleting their mail.)
3.) Restore of mailbox with stubs — since i’m not using it for compliance, i have a mess of a time fulfilling legal requests.
By: sean on April 14, 2008
at 7:01 pm
Sean,
If you are using EV2007 you could create a seperate policy for Leavers. Set its archiving date range to 0 (This will suck in all emails on your next scheduled run).
Create a leavers OU in ADUC and drop your leavers in there. Setup a provisioning group that has the above 0 day policy and apply it only to users in the Leavers OU in AD.
Not 100% automated (As you have to move the users into a new container), but should do the trick!
Dave
By: Dave on May 21, 2008
at 11:19 am
hi there,
I was just wondering, if KVS is enabled, and I do a full mailbox export to .pst file, do all items get dragged back from KVS into the .pst or is there anther way to “really” export the whole mailbox?
By: ovidiu on July 14, 2008
at 3:01 pm
Hello
I have a querey, I need to migrate alot of users from our KVS to normal exchange so that they can use pst’s again. It was a very straight forward process on moving them to the KVS but is it the same moving them out?
J
By: Jonathan on January 19, 2009
at 12:15 pm