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Get Started with Vault

What is Google Vault?
Supported data types
Set up Vault for your organization
Sign in to Vault
Get started with Vault search and export
What's new in Vault

Licensing, upgrades, and downgrades

Buy Vault licenses for your organization
Assign Vault licenses
About upgrading to an edition that includes Vault
Preserve data for users who leave your organization
Preserve Vault data when downgrading
Vault license FAQ

Control access to Vault

Control who can sign in to Vault
Understand and grant Vault privileges
Allow an external user to access Vault

Retention

How retention works
Retain Gmail messages with Vault
Retain files in Drive with Vault
Retain messages in Groups with Vault
Retain messages in Google Chat and classic Hangouts with Vault
Retain Google Meet recordings and logs with Vault
Retain Google Voice data with Vault
Manage retention rules and holds
Vault retention FAQ

Matters

Create and manage matters
Share matters with other Vault users

Holds

Place Gmail messages on hold
Place Drive items and Meet data on hold
Place Google Groups on hold
Place Google Chat and classic Hangouts messages on hold
Place Google Voice data on hold
Review all holds for your organization
Holds FAQ

Search

Get started with Vault search and export
Use operators to refine a search in Vault
Use Vault to search Gmail and classic Hangouts
Use Vault to search Google Drive and Meet
Use Vault to search Google Groups
Use Vault to search Google Chat
Use Vault to search Google Voice
Save search queries in Vault
Vault search FAQ

Exports and Audits

Review Vault export files
Choose a location for your Vault export data
Export data from Vault
Audit Vault user activity

Additional Information about Vault

Google Vault FAQ
Vault glossary
Information for former Postini customers

Known Issues

Search and export might produce unexpected results in some time zones
Hangouts messages in Vault
Administrators without Vault licenses may be unable to sign in to Vault
Searching, previewing, and exporting files in Google Drive
Retaining items added to Drive from Gmail
Using SourceHash to deduplicate exported Drive files
Migrating emails using SMTP resets timestamps

More resources

  • Google Vault FAQ

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