Summary of default archiving actions

Table: Example custom filter and custom property configurations shows ten different configurations for custom filtering and properties.

The resulting actions taken by archiving tasks in each case are described in Table: Resulting actions for example configurations.

In all cases it is assumed that the appropriate registry settings have been configured to enable the archiving task for custom filtering. The following configuration entities are considered:

Table: Example custom filter and custom property configurations

Case

Custom properties file exists

Default content category defined

Named ruleset file exists: John Doe.xml

Named ruleset file exists: Sam Cole.xml

Default ruleset file exists

IGNORENODEFAULT set

1

No

No

No

No

No

No

2

No

No

No

No

No

Yes

3

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

4

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

5

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

6

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

7

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

8

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

9

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

No

10

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Table: Resulting actions for example configurations

Case

Resulting action

1

An error is written to the event log and the archiving task stops, because custom filtering is enabled but there is no ruleset file or custom property file.

2

Missing defaults are ignored and both mailboxes are archived according to the default Exchange mailbox policy.

3

An error is reported for Sam Cole's mailbox and the archiving task stops, because no default ruleset file or custom properties file exists.

4

John Doe's mailbox is archived according to rules in John Doe.xml and Sam Cole's mailbox is archived according to the default Exchange mailbox policy. Missing defaults are ignored.

5

John Doe's mailbox is archived according to rules in John Doe.xml and Sam Cole's mailbox is archived according to the rules in Default Filter Rules.xml.

No custom properties are indexed. Content categories cannot be used.

6

As for case 5. The fact that IGNORENODEFAULT is set makes no difference.

7

An error is reported for John Doe's mailbox and the archiving task stops, because there is no applicable named ruleset file or default ruleset file or custom property file.

8

John Doe's mailbox is archived according to rules in the default Exchange mailbox policy. Sam Cole's mailbox is archived according to the rules in Sam Cole.xml.

9

All messages are archived from John Doe's mailbox and custom properties indexed. Messages are archived from Sam Cole's mailbox according to the rules in Sam Cole.xml.

10

As for case 9. The fact that IGNORENODEFAULT is set makes no difference.

More Information

About custom filtering ruleset files