You can customize the journal mailbox so that items are archived to different archives and with different retention categories.

By default, Enterprise Vault uses the same archive and retention category for every item that is archived from a journal mailbox. If this is not what you want, you can customize the journal mailbox and send items to different archives with different retention categories.

You can override the parent folder settings by changing the Enterprise Vault properties for a folder. If a folder contains other folders then, by default, those folders inherit the properties of the parent folder. However, you can change the settings for individual folders.

By default, all folders in the journal mailbox have the Enterprise Vault property Use Parent Folder Settings selected. This means that all folders inherit the same settings, retention category, and archive that are set up for the journal mailbox. Until you change the values for a particular folder, Enterprise Vault archives all items with the same retention category and stores them in the same archive.

The following tables list the Enterprise Vault settings that you can change to modify the behavior of the Exchange Journaling task, together with those that the Exchange Journaling task ignores.