The Enterprise Vault Administration Console is a snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC). MMC provides a common framework for administrative tools that gives them all a similar look and feel. It is possible to customize an MMC snap-in so that it includes the exact functionality needed by a particular administrator.

The Administration Console enables you to manage the Enterprise Vault sites, services, archiving tasks, policies and targets.

If people are using separate administration consoles at the same time to make changes to Enterprise Vault, the changes made by one person are not necessarily shown in the other consoles. You are recommended to avoid using multiple consoles simultaneously when managing Enterprise Vault. If you do use multiple consoles, press F5 to refresh the Administration Console display before you make any changes.