Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning

The Exchange Mailbox Archiving task is responsible for the following:

• Enabling mailboxes that have been processed by the Exchange Provisioning task. The Exchange Mailbox Archiving task creates an archive for the mailbox and enables the mailbox for archiving.

  When new mailboxes are created, these can be enabled manually or automatically, according to settings for the provisioning group.

• Accessing each mailbox and archiving items according to the policy set for the mailbox. The task works in cooperation with the Indexing Service, which converts and indexes items, and the Storage Service, which compresses and stores the items in the associated archive.

  You can specify the Indexing Service and indexing level to use at various places in the Enterprise Vault Administration Console tree.

• The mailbox folders are replicated in the associated mailbox archive, as are the permissions set on the folders. The archiving task synchronizes folder permissions in Outlook with folder permissions in the archive. This means that if other users have been given access to an Outlook folder, they will also have access to that folder in the mailbox archive.

  If required, you can set up shared archives that several users can access. For example, the mailboxes of legal staff could all be set up to have a folder for a case and, in each mailbox, the folder configured to be archived to a shared archive. Unlike mailbox archives, shared archives do not contain folders.