Enterprise Vault™ Setting up Exchange Server and Office 365 for SMTP Archiving

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (14.1, 14.0, 12.5, 12.4, 12.3, 12.2, 12.1)

Summary of steps

Table: Summary of configuration steps on Exchange Server summarizes the steps required to configure Exchange Server 2013 to send journal mail direct to Enterprise Vault SMTP servers.

Table: Summary of configuration steps on Exchange Server

Step

Task

Further information

1

Create a remote domain for the SMTP address to which Exchange will send journal mail.

You can use PowerShell or the Exchange Admin Center to create the domain. The example given in this document uses PowerShell.

See Creating a remote domain using the Exchange Management shell.

2

Create a contact with the target SMTP address.

You configure this SMTP address as a target address in Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving.

See Creating a recipient mail contact in the remote domain.

3

Create a Send Connector for the remote domain.

See Creating a Send Connector for the remote domain.

4

Set up standard journaling or premium journaling to send the journal mail to the SMTP address.

Do not start journaling on Exchange Servers until you have finished configuring the Enterprise Vault SMTP servers.

See Setting up Exchange Server journaling.

5

Set up Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving servers.

Detailed configuration instructions are given in the manual, Setting up SMTP Archiving.

See Points to note when setting up Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving servers.