Where to define default settings

Table: Site properties lists default settings that are to apply across the Enterprise Vault Site.

Table: Site properties

Tab

Settings

General

  • The Site alias and description.

  • The protocol and port to use for the Web Access application.

  • PST holding area details.

  • A system message for users, if required.

  • A system message for administrators, if required.

Archive Settings

  • The default Retention Category.

  • The default indexing level.

  • Whether users can delete items from their archive, and recover deleted items.

Storage Expiry

  • The schedule for running storage expiry to delete from archives any items that are older than the retention period assigned.

  • What expiry is to be based on.

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.

Some of these can be overridden for individual archiving targets. For example, when archiving Exchange Servers, some of the defaults shown in Archive Settings can also be defined at provisioning group, Exchange Server and Enterprise Vault server levels. Consider the planned structure of your Site and decide where these defaults need to be defined.

Site properties enable you to have overall control of some aspects of archiving in the site, such as the schedule for archiving runs and whether users can delete items in archives. Archiving target and policy settings enable you tailor archiving for particular archiving targets or groups of users.

Site properties settings are described in the Administration Console help. Refer to this for more details about these settings.