9 Months after Enterprise Vault 12 was released by Veritas after the demerger from Symantec, the first service pack has been announced.

Along with many bug fixes and ensuring that the Enterprise Vault is the most stable and most reliable than it has ever been, Enterprise Vault 12.1 introduces some new features.

Search Improvements

Since the search was completely revamped in Enterprise Vault 11.0.0, every major EV release has improved the usability and stability of this search.

EVS (the shorthand for the new Enterprise Vault Search) was a much needed improvement to the legacy search and archive explorer features of Enterprise Vault versions of old. Whereas there were previously two separate panes of glass to view your archives, EV11 combined the two with a cleaner, more user-friendly interface resembling the Outlook client that the end-user is more used to. Enterprise Vault 11.0.1 further stabilized the search and Enterprise Vault 12.0 improved the look and usability including allowing the option of the UK date format that frustrated many of our UK clients. Enterprise Vault 12.1 sees improvements to the Outlook Add-in and OWA tie-ins and enhancements have been made within the search to the toolbar and icons.

Newly introduced with Enterprise Vault 12.1 is tag searching. If items have been tagged within the eDiscovery tools of Enterprise Vault, the tags can now be searched within the Enterprise Vault Search.

For users with File System Archiving, whole folders can now be archived and replaced with shortcuts with the folders being searchable in EVS.