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
Recommendations for quota-based archiving
When you configure archiving based on quota, or on age and quota, consider the recommendations given here. These recommendations help you to avoid setting the quota percentage too high for your Enterprise Vault configuration. If the quota percentage is too high, Enterprise Vault may archive too many items as it tries to achieve the quota target.
The recommendations are as follows:
Review your shortcut settings and consider using smaller shortcuts. With smaller shortcuts, Enterprise Vault saves more space in a mailbox for each item that it archives. The result is that Enterprise Vault needs to archive fewer items to achieve the percentage of free space that you require.
If you use large shortcuts when the average item is small, Enterprise Vault saves less space for each item that it archives.
To find out the average shortcut size, run the Exchange Mailbox Archiving task in
run mode.You specify the settings that determine what information is left in a shortcut on the mailbox policy
tab.Consider making shortcuts expire earlier. When shortcuts expire earlier, you save mailbox space and avoid archiving too many items. You set the age at which Enterprise Vault deletes shortcuts on the mailbox policy
tab.Specify that Enterprise Vault starts by archiving large items. Enterprise Vault then archives items that use the most mailbox space first.
Start with a low quota percentage, and increase it gradually until you get the results you require.
Make sure that there is enough archiving each night so that users have sufficient space for the following day.
Select the mailbox policy Advanced settings
and .Items in the Deleted Items folder are included in the Exchange Server mailbox storage limit calculation. By default, Enterprise Vault does not archive items from the Deleted Items folder. So items in the Deleted Items folder can prevent Enterprise Vault from reaching the quota percentage target.
Managed folders are also included in the Exchange Server mailbox storage limit calculation. By default Enterprise Vault archives from managed folders, but you can configure it so that it does not archive from managed folders. In this case, Enterprise Vault may not be able to achieve the quota percentage target.
Select the mailbox policy Advanced setting
. By default, Enterprise Vault removes attachments from calendar, meeting, task, and contact items after it archives these items. If attachments are not removed from these items, then archiving them does not save space in the mailbox.
Further points to note are as follows:
If no Microsoft Exchange storage limit applies to a mailbox, Enterprise Vault cannot process the mailbox with quota-based archiving.
In Exchange, you can specify the maximum space that a mailbox can occupy before the user is prohibited from sending or receiving messages. If you archive by quota and this storage limit has been exceeded, then Enterprise Vault cannot process the mailbox with quota-based archiving.
The solution is to remove or raise the limit, archive until a suitable storage level is reached, and then reimpose the limit if necessary. Enterprise Vault normally keeps users within quota, so you may decide to remove the limit.