Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration

Most organisations do not decide to build an email archive problem; it accumulates. Staff keep everything because deleting feels risky, mailbox quotas push them into creating PST files, and before long nobody can say with confidence what the organisation holds or how long it has held it. A managed archive turns that uncertainty into something administrators can control, report on and search.

Enterprise Vault training in Tanzania teaches administrators how to run that control in practice. Across five instructor-led days, the Veritas Enterprise Vault 14.1: Administration course covers Exchange archiving, the full range of user access options, PST migration, journal archiving, storage and cloud storage, retention and deletion, indexing, classification, search, monitoring and disaster recovery. Most lessons are followed by lab exercises so that each skill is practised, not just described. Enterprise Vault is now part of Arctera, and this course remains focused on version 14.1 administration.

Course Structure and Key Details

The programme lasts five days and is led by an instructor throughout, with 20 lessons and lab exercises for most of them. In the opening lessons, learners become familiar with administering Enterprise Vault, including the Administration Console and auditing. They go on to maintain Exchange targets and tasks, with Database Availability Groups included, and to manage mailbox archiving through policies and provisioning groups, followed by the client settings that shape the user experience.

Four lessons then cover client access: Outlook managed through Policy Manager, Vault Cache and Virtual Vault, and access through the Office Mail App and Outlook on the web. After maintaining journal archiving, learners take two lessons on PST migration, beginning with how migration works and moving on to performing client-driven and server-driven migrations.

The later lessons cover the work that keeps an archive dependable over the years. Learners monitor servers, maintain databases and apply updates, and complete two storage lessons that include archive moves. Cloud storage configuration covers Amazon S3, Amazon C2S, Microsoft Azure, and generic S3 storage as primary storage. Retention and deletion are taught through retention categories, retention plans, records management and single-instance storage. The course finishes with index management, Information Classifier policies, Enterprise Vault Search with archive permissions and user deletion and recovery, the dashboard, reporting and auditing, and a disaster recovery overview.

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

Course Objectives

• Understand the purpose, benefits, and architecture of Enterprise Vault.
• Navigate the Administration Console and enable auditing.
• Keep Exchange targets, tasks, and mailbox archiving policies in good order.
• Configure and troubleshoot archive access in Outlook, Vault Cache, Virtual Vault and web clients.
• Migrate PST files into managed archives.
• Maintain journal archives and archive storage.
• Use cloud storage services as primary archive storage.
• Manage retention, deletion, and records management.
• Maintain indexes and support classification and search.
• Monitor and report on the environment and outline its recovery.