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Data Sheet: Data and System Protection

Symantec Enterprise Vault™

Symantec Enterprise Vault with Offline Vault for Offline and Laptop Users

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Offline access to Enterprise Vault archived email

Offline Vault is a powerful extension to Symantec Enterprise

Vault software email archiving. It allows you to extend

Enterprise Vault software beyond the corporate network

and to support remote and laptop users by creating a local

archive on their PC. In addition the Enterprise Vault stan-

dard server-based mailbox archiving, Offline Vault copies

email and attachments to a locally held archive to maintain

access to information even when not connected to the cor-

porate network. Offline Vault enables you to enforce central

email archiving policies and give laptop users uninterrupted

access to archived content. Key benefits include:

• Automatic maintenance of a local archive copy of users’

OST files

• Transparent access to archived email, even when offline

• Elimination of bandwidth constraints—no network-based

synchronization required for normal operation

• Implement a highly configurable, centrally controlled

archiving solution to benefit users and the organization

Simplify archiving between users and the organization

• As email is downloaded to the user’s PC, a local archiving

service moves email and attachments held in OST mail-

box folders directly into Offline Vault.

• Older email is archived from the user’s Microsoft®

Exchange mailbox and replaced with shortcuts.

• Shortcuts are copied to the offline user’s PC via Microsoft

Outlook® synchronization.

• When the user is working offline and tries to access an

archived item in Microsoft Outlook, the email is retrieved

from Offline Vault.

• If the email is not found in Offline Vault, a download

service automatically copies the item from Enterprise

Vault to Offline Vault the next time the user connects

to the network.

Offline Vault makes the archive available to any user, anywhere, anytime.

The Offline Vault is populated intelligently before archiving takes place.

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Archive locally… work globally

A well-managed email archiving regime eliminates the

need for PST files, reduces the size of Microsoft Exchange

message stores, provides faster backup/recovery times, and

improves user access capability through extended searching.

PC users depend on OST files to locally store email

and attachments on the go, but when central archiving

replaces items with shortcuts to reduce the size of their

mailboxes, users lose access to those archived items when

disconnected from the corporate network. Consequently,

offline users may still revert to creating PSTs on their

laptops, to maintain remote email access.

Offline Vault eliminates this need by providing automatic

access to archived items, even when disconnected. It locally

benefits offline users with smaller mailboxes while reducing

risk of data corruption and still providing continuous access

to email.

Offline Vault key benefits

Access archived content anywhere—Offline Vault lets

your users store, manage, and discover large volumes of

archived content from outside the corporate network while

minimizing network traffic.

Highly configurable—Administrators can global-enable

and configure Offline Vault site-wide from desktop settings

or users can optionally control it locally. Flexible options

allow you to take full control of offline archiving for

optimal performance and content management.

Centralize and secure content—Archive for corporate

policy, keep users in touch with their content, and

eliminate problems with PST file use.

Protection from information loss—Should the laptop

become corrupted or lost/stolen, the local Vault may be

re-created from the central archive. Unlike local PSTs, the

user’s archived email is completely protected from mishaps

with the laptop.

Extension of Symantec Enterprise Vault archiving

solutions—Symantec Enterprise Vault software is the

most comprehensive content archiving software, which

provides optimized storage and simplified management

and enables discovery of content within Microsoft

Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint® Portal Server, and

File System environments.

Offline Vault technical features

User-friendly functionality

• Transparent access to archived content

• Search and retrieve archived email via double-click

shortcuts in Microsoft Outlook

• Automatic/manual download of items not stored in

Offline Vault

• Reminders of items to download from Enterprise Vault

to Offline Vault

• Prioritization of items awaiting download

• Monitoring and progress of items being downloaded

• Archive mailbox folders and public folders in OSTs

Flexible configuration and administration

• Easy installation, global-enable site-wide from desktop

• Enable/disable local archive service

• Set local archive size (oldest items deleted if full)

• Control local archive service background activity

• Set visual reminder when download needed

• Archive deleted items

• User-friendly functionality

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Microsoft, Outlook, and SharePoint are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other brands and products are trademarks of their

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