SharePoint archiving task properties

To customize property settings for this task, such as the logon account that runs the task, right-click the SharePoint task in the right hand pane and select "Properties".

Table: SharePoint task properties

Tab

Property

Description

General

Site

The Enterprise Vault site to which this task belongs.

Computer

The computer on which this task is created.

Task name

The name of the task.

Run in report mode

Select this check box to run in report mode. This mode lists the documents that meet the archiving criteria, without actually archiving any documents.

Startup type

The startup type for this task.

Administrative note

You can add a note for this task. This note is visible to other Enterprise Vault administrators, who have access to this task.

Schedule

Use site setting

If selected, this task will use the schedule configured for the Enterprise Vault site. Open site properties to view the site schedule.

Run

Select "Never" to stop the scheduled running of the task, or "Selected times", to start the task running at the times and days that you select on this page.

Interval

This enables you to change the units used in the schedule grid below.

Schedule grid

You can select or clear times in the grid, as required. Help on how to use the grid is given in the online help.

Log On

Select the account that this task will run under.

The SharePoint archiving task always runs as the Vault Service account. You can specify a different account for the SharePoint archiving task to use when communicating with SharePoint. The account that you specify on this tab must have full access permissions to content in the target SharePoint sites.

Reports

Generate report files for archive run

The "Reports" tab enables you to configure report generation. If you want reports generated each time the archiving task runs, select this check box. Reports are created in the "Reports" folder (typically C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\Reports\SharePoint Archiving).

Logging level for Archiving and Report runs

You can select the amount of detail you want included in reports for this task.

Number of reports to keep

You can also select the number of reports for this task that you want kept in the "Reports" folder.

Targets

Targets

This tab lists the sites to be archived on the SharePoint server. Targets are assigned to tasks when you create archiving target objects.

A SharePoint task can service several targets. Alternatively, you can create multiple SharePoint archiving tasks and assign targets to each task, as required.

More Information

Creating archiving target site collections