Prohibiting a program from recalling files

For NTFS file servers it is possible to specify a list of programs that are prohibited from recalling archived items. This is most likely to be useful if you use an antivirus program or backup program that does not honor the file system offline attribute. The program must be a program that runs on the file server.

You specify the list of programs by editing a registry value on each computer that is running an Enterprise Vault Placeholder service. This is a string value, ExcludedExes, under the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
 \Software
  \KVS
   \Enterprise Vault
	\FSA
	 \PlaceholderService

To specify a list of prohibited programs, edit ExcludedExes to specify the names of the program executable files, separated by semicolons (;).

For example, to exclude Windows Explorer, "MyBackupProgram", and a program called "MyAntivirus", you can specify the following:

Explorer.exe;MyBackupProgram.exe;MyAntivirus.exe

If you change the list of prohibited programs, you must restart the Enterprise Vault Placeholder service on the file server to make the change take effect.