Configuring selective journaling

You can configure an Exchange Journaling task to call the selective journaling external filter that decides whether to archive or delete an item. To select messages, you set up filtering rules to match the To, CC, and From fields. If a message matches any of these rules it is archived, otherwise it is deleted.

All the normal, site-defined Enterprise Vault filtering rules are obeyed first; if an item is not eligible for default archiving then the external filter is not called (in the case of journaling, all items are eligible for archiving, so the external filter will always be called).

If you enable selective journaling on an Enterprise Vault server, it will be enabled for all Exchange Journaling tasks that are hosted on that computer.

To set up selective journaling, do the following on each computer that hosts an Enterprise Vault Exchange Journaling task

  1. Set up Exchange Journal archiving.

  2. Create a filtering rules file.

  3. The same filtering rules file will be used by all Exchange Journaling tasks that are hosted on the computer.

  4. Add the selective journaling registry settings for the Exchange Journaling task.

  5. Restart the Exchange Journaling task.