Enterprise Vault™ Setting up Exchange Server Archiving

In Virtual Vault, some changes may affect the retention categories of items and folders. These changes are handled as follows:

• If a user moves an item between folders with different retention categories, the item's retention category is updated.

• The user may move a folder that inherits its retention category into a folder with a different effective retention category. (The effective retention category is the retention category that is either inherited or assigned specifically.) In this case, the moved folder and its contents inherit the new retention category. Any subfolders and their contents that inherit the retention category are similarly updated.

• The user may move a folder with a specific retention category into a folder with a different effective retention category. In this case, the moved folder's retention category does not change.

• If the user creates a new folder in Virtual Vault, the folder inherits its parent folder's retention category.

• Any folders that you designate as retention folders in the user's archive may impose retention categories on the items in them. For example, moving an item into a retention folder may cause the item's retention category to change to one that the folder has imposed.

  For more information on retention folders, see the Administrator's Guide.

• Depending on how you set up Enterprise Vault Search, the user may be able to change the retention category of an item with it.