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Supported services & data types

Set up Vault for your organization

Sign in to Vault

Get started with Vault search & export

Google Vault FAQ

What's new in Vault

Licensing and edition changes

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 switching editions

Vault license FAQ

Control and audit access to Vault

Control who can sign in to Vault

Set up Vault privileges

Allow an external user to access Vault

Vault log events

Retention

How retention works

Retain Gmail messages with Vault

Retain Drive files with Vault

Retain Google Calendar events with Vault

Retain Google Meet data with Vault

Retain Google Sites data with Vault

Retain Gemini app messages with Vault

Retain Groups messages with Vault

Retain Google Chat messages with Vault

Retain Google Voice data with Vault

Manage retention rules and holds

Vault retention FAQ

Matters

Create & manage matters

Share matters with other Vault users

Holds

Get started with holds in Google Vault

Place Gmail messages on hold

Place Drive, Meet, and Sites data on hold

Place Google Calendar events on hold

Place Groups on hold

Place Gemini app messages on hold

Place Google Chat messages on hold

Place Google Voice data on hold

Review all holds for your organization

Delete a user with data on hold

Search

Get started with Vault search & export

Use operators to refine a search in Vault

Use Vault to search Gmail

Use Vault to search Google Drive, Meet & Sites

Use Vault to search Google Calendar

Use Vault to search Google Groups

Use Vault to search Google Chat

Use Vault to search Google Voice

Use Vault to search Gemini app

Save search queries in Vault

Vault search FAQ

Vault Chat search and export scope

Exports

Export data from Vault

Choose a location for your Vault export data

Download an export from Vault

Vault export contents

Review messages exported with Vault

Known issues

Search and export might produce unexpected results in some time zones

Administrators without Vault licenses may be unable to sign in to Vault

Searching, previewing & exporting files in Google Drive

Using SourceHash to deduplicate exported Drive files

Migrating emails using SMTP resets timestamps

Action required: Changes to Drive search operators

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