Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Classification
- About this guide
- Getting started
- Setting up the classification properties
- About the Enterprise Vault classification properties
- Setting up the Enterprise Vault classification properties manually
- Checking the Folder Usage classification property
- How classification property values and retention categories interact
- Setting up new values for the Enterprise Vault classification properties
- Points to note on setting retention categories
- Configuring your classification rules
- Defining and applying classification policies
- About classification policies
- Defining classification policies
- About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with classification policies
- Associating classification policies with retention plans
- About the PowerShell cmdlets for working with retention plans
- Applying retention plans to your Enterprise Vault archives
- Running classification in test mode
- Publishing classification properties and rules across your site
- Appendix A. Enterprise Vault properties for use in classification rules
- About the Enterprise Vault properties
- System properties
- Attachment properties
- Custom Enterprise Vault properties
- Custom Enterprise Vault properties for File System Archiving items
- Custom Enterprise Vault properties for SharePoint items
- Custom Enterprise Vault properties for Compliance Accelerator-processed items
- Custom properties for use by policy management software
- Custom properties for Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
- Appendix B. PowerShell cmdlets for use with classification
- Appendix C. Troubleshooting and performance monitoring
Points to note on setting retention categories
The following are some important points to note when you use the classification feature to set the retention categories of items:
Suppose that you configure a retention category to prevent users from manually deleting items to which the category is assigned. Or you configure the retention category to prevent the automatic deletion of expired items with this category.
If the classification feature assigns this retention category to an item when a user tries to delete it or Enterprise Vault tries to expire it, the action is blocked.
By default, Enterprise Vault updates the retention categories of archived items when users move the items from one folder to another folder that has a different retention category. This can potentially override the retention categories that the classification feature has set. However, you can choose to prevent retention category updates for moved items when you define a classification policy.
If you do not use the classification policy to prevent retention category updates for moved items, the updates proceed subject to the options that you choose on the Archive Settings tab of the Site Properties dialog box.
If an application such as Discovery Accelerator has placed an item on legal hold, Enterprise Vault does not submit the item for classification when a user tries to delete it or Enterprise Vault tries to expire it. In consequence, the classification feature cannot update the retention categories of such items. However, the classification feature can update the retention categories of such items when it indexes and archives them.
When the classification feature classifies an item that Enterprise Vault has archived to a WORM storage device, it may apply a new retention category that changes the item's expiry date. In this case, Enterprise Vault expires the item on the later of the two dates.
For example, if the classification feature applies a retention category that sets a later expiry date, it is this new, later date that Enterprise Vault honors. On the other hand, if the new retention category sets an earlier expiry date, Enterprise Vault waits until the old, later date before it deletes the item.
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