An advanced filtering feature enables you to customize the way certain messages are processed by the archiving task. Messages can be filtered on a variety of attributes, such as sender, recipients, subject, message direction or custom MAPI properties added by a third party application. Using XML configuration files, you can define the required action for messages that meet the filter rules. For example, you may want messages from a certain domain to be given a different Retention Category and archived in a different archive.

The custom filtering feature is particularly useful if your enterprise adds custom MAPI properties to items and you want to be able to search archived items using these custom properties. Using the XML configuration files, you can specify custom properties that are to be indexed by Enterprise Vault when the message is archived.

To enable you to search on custom properties, the Enterprise Vault browser search supports the custom filtering feature. You define in the XML configuration files which properties are to be available in the user interface for searches, and how the search options for these are to be displayed.

An API is also available to enable you to add custom property searching to proprietary archive search applications.

Custom filtering can be configured for particular types of Exchange Server archiving (mailbox, public folder or journal archiving). If required, custom filtering can be restricted to particular mailboxes.

How to configure custom filters and properties is described in the Installing and Configuring manual.

If you want a customized filter written for this interface, contact your Symantec solutions provider.