Volume Policy Properties: Permissions

When Enterprise Vault archives files, the version stored in the archive is given the same permissions as the folder that contained the original file.

This means the following:

If there is a file with permissions that are different from those of the containing folder, the archived version will have the folder permissions. Shortcuts will have the same permissions as the file.
Someone who has access to the original folder can find and access the archived version of the file, even if the file permissions denied access. Such a person cannot use a shortcut to access the file, however.

What do you want to do with files that have explicit permissions set:

Use Volume Policy settings
- Ignore them. Select this if you want Enterprise Vault not to archive files with explicit permissions
- Archive them. Select this to make Enterprise Vault include files with explicit permissions when archiving.