Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration

Enterprise Vault is one of the most widely deployed platforms for archiving Microsoft Exchange email. It moves older content out of live mailboxes into managed storage, applies retention rules, removes duplicate copies, and keeps everything searchable for users and authorised reviewers. Those benefits only hold, however, when the archive is administered well, which is why skilled Enterprise Vault administrators remain in demand wherever the platform is used.

Enterprise Vault 14.1 Administration training develops those skills through five instructor-led days and 20 lessons, most with their own labs. Learners maintain Exchange targets and archiving policies, configure user access through Outlook, Vault Cache, Virtual Vault, the Office Mail App and Outlook on the web, migrate PST files, maintain journal archiving, manage on-premises and cloud storage, apply retention and deletion, maintain indexes, work with the Information Classifier, support Enterprise Vault Search and monitor the environment.

Enterprise Vault is now sold under the Arctera brand following the Veritas business split, while this course keeps its Veritas title and focuses on version 14.1. Learners interested in the backup side of the same environment can explore our Veritas NetBackup training.

Course Structure and Key Details

Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration (course code EVA141 in authorised partner catalogues) is a five-day course led by an instructor, with hands-on labs attached to most of its 20 lessons. Classroom delivery is the format listed by authorised partners, and our advisors can confirm availability for your location and dates.

The course begins with the foundations of administration, covering the Administration Console and auditing, before addressing Exchange targets and tasks, including Database Availability Groups. Learners then manage mailbox archiving through policies and provisioning groups and configure client settings.

User access is covered across four lessons, which deal with Outlook and Policy Manager, Vault Cache and Virtual Vault, and the Office Mail App with Outlook on the web. Journal archiving maintenance follows, together with two lessons on PST migration that explain the process and then put both client-driven and server-driven migration into practice.

The second half of the course addresses long-term care of the archive. Learners cover server monitoring, database maintenance and updates, two lessons on maintaining storage that include archive moves, and cloud storage configuration for Amazon S3, Amazon C2S, Microsoft Azure and generic S3 storage as primary storage. Retention and deletion are covered through retention categories, retention plans, records management, and single-instance storage. The final lessons deal with managing indexes, Information Classifier policies, Enterprise Vault Search, including archive permissions and user deletion and recovery, monitoring through the dashboard with reporting and auditing, and a disaster recovery overview.

Learners need working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and some system administration experience. Basic Exchange and Outlook familiarity is enough, while power-user or administrator knowledge of SQL Server, Exchange, and Active Directory is useful. The published outline does not include a certification exam.

Course Objectives

• Describe the purpose, benefits, and components of Enterprise Vault.
• Navigate the Administration Console.
• Manage Exchange targets and mailbox archives.
• Maintain client settings and manage client access to archives.
• Migrate PST files into Enterprise Vault.
• Maintain journal archiving.
• Review and maintain archive storage and configure cloud storage.
• Manage storage retention and deletion.
• Manage indexing, the Veritas Information Classifier, and Enterprise Vault Search.
• Monitor and manage servers and outline backup and recovery.