About archiving strategies

This section considers the main points that you need to consider when defining how archiving is to be implemented in your organization and describes configurations settings that will enable you to implement your strategy. Your archiving strategy will determine how you set up Enterprise Vault.

The considerations that you must weigh include the following:

What types of data you want to archive - user mailbox items, journaled items, public folders, files on file servers or SharePoint servers
Which mailboxes, journal mailboxes, public folders, file servers and SharePoint servers to target for archiving
How often to archive the archiving targets
The vault stores to use for particular archives
Required indexing levels
The policies needed for each archiving target
The Retention Categories to define
How and when shortcuts and items are to be deleted
The type of shortcuts to use in mailboxes and on file servers
Whether to enable archives automatically for mailboxes, public folders and SharePoint site collections
Whether to keep safety copies
Which settings to apply across the site
How to configure single instance storage for your archives.
Location of PST and NSF files and how they are to be archived
How much flexibility you give users
How much Enterprise Vault functionality to show on the users' desktops

These options, and others, are considered in the following sections.