Setting up Vault Cache and Virtual Vault

Before you set up Virtual Vault, see the Virtual Vault Best Practice Guide. It is available from:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/docs/334852

To enable Vault Cache, you select Make Vault Cache available for users on the Vault Cache tab in the Exchange Desktop policy. To enable Virtual Vault, you select Make Virtual Vault available to users, as well as Make Vault Cache available for users.

You can also do the following:

A Vault Cache is created for each Windows user's mailbox profile. A single user can have several Vault Caches, if the user has access to several mailbox profiles.

To set up Vault Cache and Virtual Vault in the Exchange Desktop policy

  1. In the Exchange Desktop policy, on the Vault Cache tab, select Make Vault Cache available for users.

  2. On the Vault Cache tab, select or clear other settings as required. If you want to enable Virtual Vault, select Make Virtual Vault available to users.

    For descriptions of the settings, click Help on the Vault Cache tab.

  3. Click Apply.

  4. On the Exchange Desktop policy Advanced tab, click Vault Cache on the List settings from menu and configure advanced settings for Vault Cache.

    See Vault Cache advanced settings.

  5. Click Apply.

  6. If you have enabled Virtual Vault, click Virtual Vault on the List settings from menu and configure advanced settings for Virtual Vault.

    See Virtual Vault advanced settings.

  7. Click OK.

  8. If you have disabled the expansion of PST files on users' computers by setting the registry entry PstDisableGrow, then you need to perform some additional setup tasks on users' computers.

More Information

Enabling Vault Cache if PstDisableGrow is set