How to access archived documents

By installing the optional Archive Search web part on the SharePoint Server, and adding the Archive Search web part (and optionally the Archive Explorer web part) to site pages, you can enable SharePoint users to search for documents stored in the Enterprise Vault SharePoint archive. The search is very similar to the SharePoint Portal Server search.

In Archive Explorer the archives are displayed in a tree structure with subsites and document libraries displayed as child objects of the site collection archive.

Using either Archive Search or Archive Explorer, documents can be viewed, saved, restored to the SharePoint Server and, if allowed, deleted.

When users view the version history of a document, the versions of the document on SharePoint are displayed on the versions history page. After the archiving task has run for the first time, a new link is displayed under the SharePoint versions that gives users access to archived versions of the document.