Configuring and managing retention folders

The Retention Folder feature enables you to create single folders or a hierarchy of folders automatically on file servers, to be managed by Enterprise Vault and archived according to assigned policies. For example, you may want to create a hierarchy of retention folders in every user's home folder.

Enterprise Vault archives the items that are placed in the retention folders according to the policy that is assigned to each folder. Different folders in a retention folder hierarchy can have different policies assigned.

You define the archives to use for the retention folders by specifying where archive points are to be created.

If a user deletes or moves any folders in the retention folder hierarchy, then by default Enterprise Vault recreates the folders during the next run of the FSA archiving task in Normal mode. Hence the folders are retained.

If you do not want Enterprise Vault to recreate deleted or moved folders you can set a registry value.

See Controlling whether Enterprise Vault recreates deleted or moved retention folders.