Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration

Email is where much of an organisation’s record actually lives. Approvals, contracts, supplier correspondence and customer complaints all pass through Exchange mailboxes, and over time those mailboxes grow, PST files multiply on laptops and file shares, and nobody is quite sure what can be deleted. Enterprise Vault exists to bring that content under control: it moves older items into a managed archive, applies retention rules and makes the archive searchable for users and authorised reviewers.

Enterprise Vault training in Saudi Arabia prepares the administrators who run that archive day to day. Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration is a five-day, instructor-led course in which learners work through the tasks an archive administrator actually performs, from maintaining Exchange targets and mailbox archiving policies to migrating PST files, managing storage and indexes, and supporting search. Each topic is backed by hands-on lab exercises, so learners practise the console tasks rather than only reading about them.

The product is now sold under the Arctera brand following the Veritas business split, but the course and the skills it teaches carry straight across. For organisations that also protect their servers with Veritas software, our NetBackup training covers the backup side of the same environment.

Course Structure and Key Details

The course runs for five days and is delivered by an instructor, with hands-on labs attached to most of its 20 lessons. Classroom delivery is the format listed in the authorised partner outlines, and our advisors can confirm the arrangement available for your dates.

The first part of the course sets the foundations. Learners are introduced to administering Enterprise Vault, including navigating the Administration Console and enabling auditing, and then move on to maintaining Exchange targets and archiving tasks, including environments that use an Exchange Database Availability Group. Mailbox archiving policies and provisioning groups follow, along with the client settings that control how archiving appears to users.

The next block focuses on how people reach their archives. Separate lessons cover Outlook access managed through Policy Manager, Vault Cache and Virtual Vault for offline and cached access, and access through the Office Mail App and Outlook on the web. Journal archiving is then treated on its own, followed by two lessons on PST migration that introduce the process and then cover both client-driven and server-driven migrations.

The second half of the week is about keeping the environment healthy. Learners study server monitoring, database maintenance and updates, two lessons on maintaining Enterprise Vault storage that include moving archives, and the configuration of cloud storage, with Amazon S3, Amazon C2S, Microsoft Azure and generic S3-compatible storage covered as primary storage options. Retention and deletion are handled through retention categories and retention plans, records management, and single-instance storage. The course closes with index management, the Veritas Information Classifier and its policies, Enterprise Vault Search, including archive permissions and user deletion and recovery, monitoring and reporting through the dashboard and audit features, and a disaster recovery overview.

The stated prerequisite is a working knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 with some system administration experience. Basic familiarity with Exchange and Outlook is enough, and power-user or administrator knowledge of SQL Server, Exchange, and Active Directory is useful. The published outlines do not include a certification exam.

Course Objectives

• Explain the purpose, benefits, and main components of Enterprise Vault.
• Navigate the Administration Console and maintain Exchange archiving targets and tasks.
• Maintain mailbox archives, archiving policies, and client settings.
• Manage how users reach their archives through Outlook, Vault Cache, Virtual Vault, the Office Mail App, and Outlook on the web.
• Plan and perform client-driven and server-driven PST migrations.
• Maintain journal archiving for Exchange.
• Review and maintain archive storage, including cloud storage targets.
• Apply retention categories, retention plans, and deletion settings.
• Manage indexes, the Information Classifier, and Enterprise Vault Search.
• Monitor servers, produce reports, and outline backup and recovery for the archive.