Archiving targets

The mailboxes to be archived are defined by targets that you create in the Administration Console under Targets > Exchange. A target can be a whole Exchange domain, defined in Active Directory as an Exchange Organization, or a group of users within the Exchange Organization, or an individual user. Within an Exchange Organization in Enterprise Vault, there may be several Exchange Servers. Exchange Server mailbox targets are defined using provisioning groups.

For a provisioning group, you can configure settings including the following:

The Exchange mailbox policy and desktop policy to be used for the target group
The default Retention Category to be used for items being archived
The vault store to store archives in
The Indexing Service to use
Whether mailbox archives are to be enabled automatically
A policy for importing PST file contents to archives

An Exchange mailbox policy and desktop policy are associated with each provisioning group. Together, these policies define how that group of user mailboxes is archived, and the user desktop experience in terms of the Enterprise Vault features and functions available. If you want to use different settings for different groups of users, you will need to create, in the Administration Console, a provisioning group for each group of users and a suitable Exchange mailbox policy and desktop policy for each group.