Veritas Enterprise Vault 12.x: Implementation and Deployment (EVID) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Veritas Enterprise Vault: Product Overview

  • Describe the business challenges addressed by Enterprise Vault
  • Describe the basic concepts behind the Enterprise Vault system
  • Describe the Enterprise Vault structure and components
  • List the access options for Enterprise Vault

Introduction to Designing an Enterprise Vault Deployment

  • Describe how to approach an Enterprise Vault design.
  • Describe the main steps to deploy Enterprise Vault and best practices.
  • Describe available design tools.
  • Describe the main considerations when designing an Enterprise Vault deployment.
  • Describe the Enterprise Vault designs for common deployment scenarios.

Preparing the Environment for Installing Enterprise Vault

  • Describe the installation prerequisites for the Enterprise Vault server.
  • Describe the additional installation prerequisites required for the Exchange archiving.
  • Describe the additional installation prerequisites required for the File System Archiving.
  • Describe the additional installation prerequisites required for the SharePoint archiving.
  • Use the Deployment Scanner to confirm that all the prerequisites are installed correctly.

Installing Enterprise Vault

  • Use the Enterprise Vault Install launcher to install Enterprise Vault.
  • Complete the post installation tasks.
  • Uninstall or reinstall Enterprise Vault.

Configuring the Enterprise Vault Server

  • Run the Enterprise Vault Configuration wizard.
  • Configure site settings to meet specific requirements.
  • Deploy roles‐based access (RBA) for administration access.
  • Configure monitoring and reporting.

Configuring Indexing and Storage

  • Configure Enterprise Vault Indexes.
  • Configure Enterprise Vault archive retention.
  • Discuss storage architecture and perform the initial storage configuration.

Configuring Exchange Mailbox Archiving

  • Configure Exchange mailbox targets.
  • Define mailbox policies and configure provisioning.
  • Enable mailboxes and perform archiving for user mailboxes using the Mailbox Archiving Task.

Configuring Exchange Clients

  • Configure the Enterprise Vault client Add‐In for Outlook 2010.
  • Configure access to the archives using Outlook Web Access 2007 and 2010.
  • Configure Mail App and access to the archives using Outlook Web Access 2013.
  • Enable and configure Vault Cache and Virtual Vault.

Configuring Exchange Journal Archiving

  • Describe the basics of Journaling in Microsoft Exchange.
  • Provide an overview of Enterprise Vault Exchange Journal archiving.
  • Configure archiving from Exchange Journal Mailbox.
  • List the considerations for Journal Archiving.

Configuring File System Archiving (FSA)

  • Provide an overview of File System Archiving.
  • Configure FSA targets.
  • Process items.

Configuring SharePoint Archiving

  • Provide an overview of SharePoint archiving.
  • Configure SharePoint archiving.
  • Process items.

Troubleshooting the Implementation

  • List the common implementation issues.
  • List the various resources available for troubleshooting.
  • Use common troubleshooting tools.
  • Review Enterprise Vault client logs.

Validating the environment

  • Test archiving and access.
  • Define the components to backup and other considerations.
  • Review the implementation steps and checklists.

Appendix: Optional lessons (no labs) Installing Enterprise Vault Compliance Accelerator (CA)

  • Understand the basic compliance concepts.
  • Describe the architectural components of Compliance Accelerator and workflow.
  • Describe the prerequisites for installing Compliance Accelerator.
  • Installation and initial configuration of Compliance Accelerator server and client.

Installing Enterprise Vault Discovery Accelerator (DA)

  • Understand the basic discovery concepts.
  • Describe the architectural components of Discovery Accelerator and workflow.
  • Describe the prerequisites for installing Discovery Accelerator.
  • Installation and initial configuration of Discovery Accelerator server and client.