Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration

An email archive rarely fails all at once. It degrades quietly: an index falls behind, a storage partition fills, a group of users never received the right archiving policy, or a migration of old PST files stalls halfway. The administrator who catches these problems early keeps the archive trustworthy, and the one who does not ends up fielding complaints that archived mail cannot be found.

Enterprise Vault training in Oman is built for the people in that role. Over five instructor-led days, the Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration course works through the full life of archived content, from the moment Exchange items are archived, through how users open them in Outlook or a browser, to how they are stored, indexed, searched, retained, and finally deleted. Labs accompany most lessons, so learners finish the week having carried out the tasks themselves.

Enterprise Vault is now part of the Arctera portfolio, and the course content applies directly to environments running version 14.1. Learners responsible for the wider data protection estate can also explore our backup and recovery courses.

Course Structure and Key Details

This is a five-day course led by an instructor and organised into 20 lessons, with lab exercises attached to most of them. Authorised partner outlines list classroom delivery, and our team will confirm the format available when you enquire.

Day-one topics establish how Enterprise Vault is administered, with time spent in the Administration Console and on enabling auditing. Learners then maintain Exchange targets and archiving tasks, including Database Availability Group configurations, before working with mailbox archiving policies, provisioning groups and Enterprise Vault client settings.

User access receives four dedicated lessons. Learners configure Outlook access through Policy Manager, set up Vault Cache and Virtual Vault so users can work with cached archive content, and support access through the Office Mail App and Outlook on the web. Journal archiving follows, and two lessons on PST migration explain the process and then take learners through client-driven and server-driven migrations.

Later lessons concentrate on looking after the platform. They cover server monitoring, database maintenance and applying updates, two lessons on storage maintenance that include moving archives, and cloud storage configuration for Amazon S3, Amazon C2S, Microsoft Azure and generic S3 storage used as primary storage. Retention categories, retention plans, records management, and single-instance storage are taught in the lesson on retention and deletion. Final lessons address index management, the Information Classifier and its policies, Enterprise Vault Search with archive permissions and user deletion and recovery, the dashboard, reporting and auditing, and an overview of disaster recovery.

To keep pace, learners should have a working knowledge of Windows Server 2016 and some system administration experience. A basic grasp of Exchange and Outlook is enough, while SQL Server, Exchange, and Active Directory knowledge at power-user or administrator level is helpful. No certification exam forms part of the published outline.

Course Objectives

• Describe how Enterprise Vault components work together to archive Exchange content.
• Use the Administration Console to manage targets, tasks, and auditing.
• Apply mailbox archiving policies through provisioning groups and client settings.
• Configure Outlook, Vault Cache, Virtual Vault, Office Mail App, and web access to archives.
• Migrate PST files into Enterprise Vault using client-driven and server-driven methods.
• Maintain journal archiving and the storage that holds archived content.
• Configure cloud storage as primary archive storage.
• Control retention and deletion with retention categories and plans.
• Maintain indexes, Information Classifier policies, and Enterprise Vault Search.
• Monitor, report on, and plan recovery for the Enterprise Vault environment.