Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning
- About this guide
- Introduction
- Overview of Enterprise Vault
- How Enterprise Vault works
- About Enterprise Vault indexing
- About Enterprise Vault tasks
- About Enterprise Vault services
- About the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In
- About Enterprise Vault Search
- Enterprise Vault administration
- About reporting and monitoring in Enterprise Vault
- Exchange Server archiving
- Exchange Public Folder archiving
- File System Archiving
- Archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
- Domino mailbox archiving
- Domino Journal archiving
- SMTP Archiving
- Microsoft Teams Archiving
- Skype for Business Archiving
- Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- About Compliance Accelerator
- About Discovery Accelerator
- Building in resilience
- Planning component installation
- Where to set up the Enterprise Vault Services and Tasks
- Installation planning for client components
- Planning your archiving strategy
- How to define your archiving policy for user mailboxes
- How to plan the archiving strategy for Exchange public folders
- How to plan settings for retention categories
- How to plan vault stores and partitions
- About Enterprise Vault reports
How an Exchange Public Folder task archives
When you add a new Exchange Public Folder task, the task runs at the scheduled times, archiving from each of its target folders.
For each folder, the Exchange Public Folder task does the following:
Matches the permissions on the folder's archive to those on the folder.
If the folder has been given explicit Enterprise Vault archiving settings, then the Exchange Public Folder task archives according to those settings. Otherwise, the Exchange Public Folder task uses the default settings that you have defined in the Exchange Public Folder Policy.
If the folder is the root path of a Public Folder target that is processed by a different Exchange Public Folder task, it does not archive the folder, nor any folders beneath it.
If the folder is not accessible, then the Exchange Public Folder task does not archive the folder, nor any folders beneath it.
As with archiving other types of files, the Storage Service converts the Public Folder items to HTML, if possible, and stores them in the archives. The Indexing Service indexes the item details and content to enable searching. Note that the archive used for a Public Folder can be changed at any time by editing its properties in the Administration Console.
Figure: Archiving Public Folder hierarchies shows a Public Folder hierarchy that is archived by Exchange Public Folder tasks A and B.
When task B finds the root path folder for task A, it archives no further down that branch of the hierarchy.
Note that archiving on root path A was created before archiving on root path B, because you cannot add a Public Folder target with a root path that is already archived by an existing Exchange Public Folder task.