http://video.symantec.com/services/player/bcpid39584950001?bctid=64058504001

This release should be considered a recommended update for Enterprise Vault.

Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 documentation-    http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/350758
Compliance Accelerator 8.0 SP4 documentation –  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/350770
Discovery Accelerator 8.0 SP4 documentation –  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/350771

How can Symantec Enterprise Vault customers access this release?

Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP 4 is a full product release and can only be obtained from the Symantec Licensing Portal.  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866
 

Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 provides the following new features:
 
·        Move Archive Wizard

Enterprise Vault’s new Move Archive wizard lets you move content from existing mailbox archives and journal archives to new archives or existing archives in other vault stores. You can use the wizard to move archives between vault stores in one site and, in the case of mailbox archives, between two sites. This includes moves between two sites that are controlled by different Enterprise Vault directories.

Move Archive supports the move of archives between source and destination servers that are running Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP4 or later.

Before you start, read the section called Moving archives in the Administrator’s Guide for detailed information about this new feature.

• System Status Displays in the Vault Administration Console (VAC)

The Enterprise Vault Administration Console now includes a Status display that shows the results of the most recent monitoring checks.

Enterprise Vault automatically runs checks to monitor the health of the Enterprise Vault system. If any check finds a problem Enterprise Vault displays an alert in the Status pane of the Administration Console.

The Status display provides the quickest way for you to check the health of the Enterprise Vault system. There is help on how to fix each problem that is shown in the Status display.

The monitoring checks that System Status uses are those that are enabled on the Monitoring tab of the Site properties. You can customize the monitoring checks as required on the Monitoring tab.

See the ‘Automatic Monitoring’ chapter in the Administrator’s Guide.

Note that the System Status display requires .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or a later service pack to be installed on the computer that is running the Administration Console. There is no support for .NET Framework 4

·    Enterprise Vault Online display in the Vault Administration Console (VAC)

The Enterprise Vault Administration Console now includes ‘Enterprise Vault Online’ in the tree view.

Enterprise Vault Online provides a page with links to many online Enterprise Vault resources, including the Enterprise Vault Compatibility Charts, white papers, data sheets, a knowledge base, and discussion forums.

Use Enterprise Vault Online as a quick means to find information about Enterprise Vault

• Enterprise Vault proxy server for Outlook Anywhere client connections

You can now use an Enterprise Vault server as a proxy server for Enterprise Vault requests from Outlook Anywhere clients. The Enterprise Vault proxy server forwards Enterprise Vault requests to the Enterprise Vault server that hosts the archive. An Enterprise Vault proxy server is useful in the following situations:

• If you do not want to publish multiple Enterprise Vault servers to external users.
• If you want to publish separate URLs for external and internal Enterprise Vault users.

Note The Enterprise Vault proxy server can only be used to manage connections from Outlook Anywhere clients. It cannot be used for other types of connections, such as OWA.

For information on how to configure an Enterprise Vault proxy server, see the chapter, Configuring access to Enterprise Vault from Outlook RPC over HTTP clients, in Setting up Exchange Server Archiving.
 
Information Management Group Product BLOGS

https://forums.symantec.com/blog?blog.id=EV_team_blog (Enterprise Vault)

https://forums.symantec.com/syment/board?board.id=106 (EV Discussion Forum)

https://forums.symantec.com/blog?blog.id=messaging_security  (Mail Security)

This release should be considered a recommended update for Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, FSA, Sharepoint & SMTP and Accelerators

 Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP3 provides the following new features:

• Virtual Vault

 Added Support and Enhancements

• New Domino 8.5 support
• New Entourage support
• SharePoint Archiving and Shortcut enhancements
• Discovery Accelerator enhancements
• FSA Reporting and FSA Utility enhancements
• FIPS and FDCC Certification
• EVSVR

How can Symantec Enterprise Vault customers access this release?

Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP 3 is a full product release and can only be obtained from the Symantec Licensing Portal.  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866

I thought Martin over at Archiving101.com has posted a great write-up about this topic. If you are considering on waiting for Exchange 2010′s archiving capability to do your corporate archiving and E-Discovery, I’d recommend you take a look at his post.

http://www.archiving101.com/?p=178

Take care!

The Compatibility List is available only on-line and applies to all product versions. Here is the link:

Symantec Enterprise Vault ™ 6.0, 7.0, 2007 and 8.0 Compatibility List (includes Partner products)
http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/276547

Enterprise Vault 8 Manuals

Core Guides

Install/Upgrade

Compliance Accelerator and Discovery Accelerator 8 Manuals

According to this Symantec press release, the Puredisk deduplication technology will soon make it’s way into Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault and other Symantec products:
http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20090707_01

Another post that I found regarding deduplication that might be useful to customers is at:
http://symantec.dciginc.com/2008/11/symantec-netbackup-takes-the-d.html

From the Press Release:
Symantec is moving deduplication closer to information sources by integrating the technology into its information management platforms: NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault, and centrally managing native deduplication as well as third-party deduplication appliances.

Symantec is delivering on its deduplication strategy with a multi-phased approach:

• Integrated deduplication is available today in NetBackup and Enterprise Vault, offering deduplicated archiving, deduplicated backup storage and global deduplicated remote office backup.
• NetBackup currently offers integrated, centralized management for third-party deduplicated storage from Data Domain, Quantum, Falconstor and EMC through the OpenStorage API.
• NetBackup PureDisk 6.6, scheduled to be available later this year, will improve storage efficiency by adding enhanced deduplication for backups of virtual server images.
• Backup Exec 2010, scheduled to be available later this year, will integrate deduplication (using NetBackup PureDisk technology) into both backup clients and Backup Exec media server.  Backup Exec will also add the OpenStorage API to manage third-party deduplication appliances.
• NetBackup 7, scheduled to be available in 2010, will integrate deduplication into the backup client and NetBackup media server.

This release should be considered a recommended update for Enterprise Vault for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, FSA, Sharepoint & SMTP and Accelerators

 Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP2 provides the following new features:

• EV Entourage (Mac) client
• EV Mobile Search
• Domino Retention Folders CLI
• New DA reports
• EVSVR Repair
• FSA DOD
• Archive draft & future calendar items
• Improvements to deletion of archived files on placeholder deletion
• Improved handling of calendar, meeting and task items
• Archiving from Domino 8.5 mail servers
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Improved documentation for EV reporting and OWA

Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP 2 is a full product release and can only be obtained from the Symantec Licensing Portal.  http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/292866

Do you spend more time trying to get your systems backed up than you do at home with your loved ones? Do you even have loved ones at home any more?

Have you ever had a discussion with your organization’s legal team? Has it involved something other than your personal conduct?

Do the letters “PST” make you break out in sweats?

Do you regularly add capacity to your file servers because they are always out of space? Is the new capacity in the form of drives duck taped to the sides of the servers?

Have you reduced everyone’s mailbox capacity so low that the nightly “mailbox full” notifications now exceed the amount of SPAM in your system?

Do you have certain mailbox users for whom you have memorized their extension so you can avoid their calls?

Is your backup window encroaching on business hours? Your “Halo” time?