Enterprise Vault for Exchange: Event ID 3378 is generated during a scheduled archive run or after manually initiating an archive run

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Article ID: 100020926

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Description

Error Message

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Enterprise Vault
Event Category: Archive Task
Event ID: 3378
Computer: EVSERVER
Description: The following item has been moved in the mailbox but it could not be updated in the archive.

Mailbox: /o=Group/ou=OrganizationaUnit/cn=Recipients/cn=NameOfMailbox
Folder: \Folder1\Subfolder
Title: <_Title of the item_>
Archive folder updated: TRUE
Retention Category updated: FALSE

Reason: Item's Retention Category cannot be updated. The original Retention Category is on hold but new Retention Category is not. [0xc0041b78]

V-437-3378

See Dtrace excerpt of process ArchiveTask below:

{CArchivingAgent::UpdateMetadataOfMovedItems:#27713} metadata update request completed successfully now check the results
{CArchivingAgent::UpdateMetadataOfMovedItems:#27722} there are [3] items whose metadata did not update successfully
{CArchivingAgent::UpdateMetadataOfMovedItems:#27730} item [201408137951835~201408131743460000~Z~B127C3D56644D315667806CDE34D51B1] failed with error (0xC0041B78).  folder not updated - [FALSE], ret cat not updated - [TRUE]

 Note: The above Dtrace excerpt was collected from an Enterprise Vault 10.0.3 server.

Cause

Shortcut is moved from folder A to folder B, the retention category for folder A is configured to "Prevent deletion of archived items in this category."  The retention category for folder B is not configured to "Prevent deletion of archived items in this category."

Resolution

Use HideMovedItemUpdateFailure to suppress the logging of these events. Set HideMovedItemUpdateFailure to 1 to suppress logging of event ID 3378. If HideMovedItemUpdateFailure is not present, or is set to its default value of 0, these events are logged. See below:

 

HideMovedItemUpdateFailure

Location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Wow6432Node \KVS \Enterprise Vault \Agents

Content

DWORD

0 - (Default) Do not suppress event ID 3378.

1 - Suppress event ID 3378.

 

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Issue/Introduction

Event ID: 3378 is generated during a scheduled archive run, and or after manually initiating an archive run, or shortcut processing against an Enterprise Vault enabled mailbox.