Enterprise Vault™ Administrator's Guide
- About this guide
- Managing administrator security
- Roles-based administration
- Working with predefined RBA roles
- Customizing RBA roles
- Day-to-day administration
- About Exchange mailbox archiving reports
- About starting or stopping tasks or services
- Monitoring journal mailboxes
- About monitoring disks
- About maintaining the SQL databases
- Using SQL AlwaysOn availability groups
- About managing vault store groups and sharing
- About managing safety copies
- About managing partition rollover
- About expiry and deletion
- Working with retention categories and retention plans
- Setting up retention folders
- Enabling archiving for new mailboxes
- About moving archives
- How Move Archive works
- About moving mailbox archives within a site
- About moving mailbox archives between sites
- About configuring Move Archive
- Running Move Archive
- Monitoring Move Archive
- PowerShell cmdlets for managing archives
- Using Enterprise Vault for records management
- Setting the default record type for users
- Common configuration scenarios
- Searching archives for items marked as records
- Automatically filtering events
- Managing indexes
- About the indexing wizards
- Managing indexing exclusions
- About the indexing PowerShell cmdlets
- Advanced Domino mailbox and desktop policy settings
- Editing the advanced settings for Domino mailbox and desktop policy
- Domino mailbox policy advanced settings
- Archiving General: Domino mailbox policy
- Archiving General: Domino mailbox policy
- Domino desktop policy advanced settings
- Advanced Exchange mailbox and desktop policy settings
- Editing the advanced Exchange mailbox and desktop settings
- Exchange mailbox policy advanced settings
- Archiving General (Exchange mailbox policy advanced settings)
- Archiving General (Exchange mailbox policy advanced settings)
- Exchange desktop policy advanced settings
- Office Mail App (Exchange desktop policy advanced settings)
- Outlook (Exchange desktop policy advanced settings)
- OWA versions before 2013 (Exchange desktop policy advanced settings)
- Vault Cache (Exchange desktop policy advanced settings)
- Virtual Vault (Exchange desktop policy advanced settings)
- Advanced Exchange journal policy settings
- Archiving General (Exchange journal policy advanced settings)
- Advanced Exchange public folder policy settings
- Archiving General (Exchange public folder policy advanced settings)
- Advanced SMTP policy settings
- Site properties advanced settings
- Editing site properties advanced settings
- Site properties advanced settings
- Content Conversion (site properties advanced settings)
- File System Archiving (site properties advanced settings)
- IMAP (site properties advanced settings)
- Indexing (site properties advanced settings)
- Skype for Business (site properties advanced settings)
- SQL Server (site properties advanced settings)
- SMTP (site properties advanced settings)
- Storage (site properties advanced settings)
- Content Conversion (site properties advanced settings)
- Computer properties advanced settings
- Editing computer properties advanced settings
- Computer properties advanced settings
- Agents (computer properties advanced settings)
- IMAP (computer properties advanced settings)
- Indexing (computer properties advanced settings)
- Storage (computer properties advanced settings)
- Task properties advanced settings
- Advanced Personal Store Management properties
- Classification policy advanced settings
- Managing the Storage queue
- Automatic monitoring
- About monitoring using Enterprise Vault Operations Manager
- About monitoring using MOM
- About monitoring using SCOM
- Managing extension content providers
- Exporting archives
- Enterprise Vault message queues
- Customizations and best practice
- Mailbox archiving strategies
- Notes on archiving based on quota or age and quota
- Notes on archiving items from Exchange Server 2010 managed folders
- About performance tuning
- Mailbox archiving strategies
- Failover in a building blocks configuration
- Appendix A. Ports used by Enterprise Vault
- Appendix B. Useful SQL queries
- Appendix C. Troubleshooting
- Installation problems
- Microsoft SQL Server problems
- Server problems
- Client problems
- Problems enabling or processing mailboxes
- Problems with Vault Cache synchronization
- Identifying and resolving Vault Cache issues on the Enterprise Vault server
- Identifying and resolving Vault Cache issues on an end-user computer
- Problems with Enterprise Vault components
- Troubleshooting: All tasks and services
- Troubleshooting: Directory service
- Troubleshooting: Exchange archiving or Journaling tasks
- Troubleshooting: Storage service
- Troubleshooting: Shopping service
- Troubleshooting: Web Access application
- Troubleshooting: All tasks and services
- Techniques to aid troubleshooting
- How to modify registry settings
- About moving an Indexing service
- Appendix D. Enterprise Vault accounts and permissions
Archiving items only if they have attachments
Enterprise Vault can be configured so that a mailbox or public folder item is archived only if the item has an attachment, assuming all other archiving criteria are met. This is not the same as archive attachments only.
The advantages of archiving only items with attachments are as follows:
A significant performance improvement, since many fewer items are being archived.
Fewer problems generally, because fewer items are being archived. For example, users open fewer archived items, there are fewer problems archiving items, and so on.
Normally, using the "leave cover note text" option means Exchange store growth for messages without attachments. However, if you set this and also configure Enterprise Vault to archive items only if they have attachments, then Enterprise Vault leaves cover note text only for items that do have attachments. This means that there is always a space gain.
The disadvantages of archiving only items with attachments are as follows:
You cannot use this method if you are archiving for legal reasons because you cannot be sure of what will be archived.
Users will not be sure of where to find older items. Should they search in the mailbox or in Enterprise Vault?
Such a policy may be harder for users to understand than a simple age-based one.
Note:
If you decide to archive only items with attachments, consider having occasional archiving runs with it turned off and with an age-based policy of, say, two years. This ensures that any really old items are eventually archived, even though they have no attachments. This frees space in the Exchange database. You could do this using, for example, a simple, scheduled SQL script running once each month.
To enable archiving only items with attachments
- Start the Administration Console.
- In the left pane, expand the vault site.
- Expand Policies and then Exchange.
- Click the Mailbox container.
- In the right pane, double-click the Exchange Mailbox Policy you want to modify.
- Click the Archiving Rules tab.
- Select Archive messages with attachments only.
- Click OK.