Enterprise Vault Properties dialog box

This dialog box lists the archiving settings for the selected mailbox, mailbox folder, or public folder. The settings vary according to the mailbox or folder. Your administrator may have locked the settings to stop you changing them.

The dialog box contains the following fields:

Suspend Enterprise Vault archiving for this mailbox

Lets you turn archiving for the mailbox on or off. When you suspend archiving, Enterprise Vault does not archive any items from any folder in your mailbox. However, you can still store items in a vault yourself when you need to.

When you first use Enterprise Vault, your administrator may have suspended archiving to let you customize the Enterprise Vault settings for your mailbox. After you have customized the settings, you must uncheck Suspend Enterprise Vault archiving for this mailbox.

Archive items older than

Indicates use of one of the strategies that Enterprise Vault can use to select items to archive. Enterprise Vault archives items automatically as soon as they reach the specified age.

Archive to leave percent free space

Indicates use of one of the strategies that Enterprise Vault can use to select items to archive. Enterprise Vault archives the oldest items in your mailbox until the mailbox contains a certain percentage of free space.

Delete original item after archiving

Indicates whether Enterprise Vault deletes the original item after it has archived the item.

Create shortcut to archived item after archiving

Indicates whether Enterprise Vault creates a shortcut to the archived item.

Archive unread items, or Do not archive unread items

Indicates whether Enterprise Vault archives items that you have not read by the time that they meet the specified archiving criteria.

Vault

Identifies the vault in which Enterprise Vault archives items.

Retention Category Name

Identifies the default retention category that Enterprise Vault assigns to the items in the mailbox or folder.

The retention category that you assign to a mailbox or folder applies to each of its subfolders for which Use parent folder settings is checked.

Folder settings inherited from

Identifies the parent folder from which the current folder inherits its Enterprise Vault archiving settings.

Change

Opens the Change Enterprise Vault Properties dialog box, which lets you change the displayed settings.