To review the default settings for the Enterprise Vault site

1. In the Administration Console, expand the contents of the left pane until the Enterprise Vault site is visible.

2. Right-click the Enterprise Vault site and then, on the shortcut menu, click Properties.

   Alternatively, select the site and click the Review site properties button on the toolbar.

3. Click Help on any of the Site Properties screens for further information.

4. Site properties include the following settings. Note that you can override some of these at a lower level. For example, you can override the site archiving schedule for a particular task by setting the schedule in the task properties. The indexing level can also be set at policy and archive level and the default retention category can be set at policy level (and at Provisioning Group level for Exchange Server mailbox archiving).

   General	The vault site alias and description. The protocol and port to use for the Web Access application. A system message for users of the Web Access application, if required. PST holding area details. A note for administrators, if required.
   Archive Settings	The default retention category. The default indexing level for the site. Whether users can delete items from their archives. Whether users can recover the archived items that they have deleted. The length of time for which the deleted items remain available for recovery. The length of time for which to retain the transaction history for archives.
   Storage Expiry	The schedule for running storage expiry to delete from archives any items that are older than the retention period assigned.
   Archive Usage Limit	If required, you can set limits on the size of archives.
   Site Schedule	The schedule for running automatic, background archiving.
   Monitoring	Performance counters for monitoring Enterprise Vault.

5. Click Help on any of the site properties screens for further information.