When you create or edit an archiving policy you can choose what to do with the files that have explicit permissions set on them:

• Ignore them. Select this option if you want Enterprise Vault not to archive the files that have explicit permissions.

• Archive them. Select this option if you want Enterprise Vault to archive the files that have explicit permissions.

Note the following when deciding whether to archive these files:

• When Enterprise Vault archives a file, it gives the archived file the same permissions as the folder that contained the original file. Enterprise Vault gives the shortcut the same permissions as the original file.

• Someone with access to the original folder can find and access the archived version of the file, even if the original file's permissions denied access. The same person cannot use a shortcut to access the file.

From Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP1 onwards, a new installation of Enterprise Vault provides the following defaults for this setting:

• The supplied setting in the Default FSA Volume Policy and the Default FSA Folder Policy is Ignore them.

• The New Policy wizard's default setting is always Ignore them.

Note that before Enterprise Vault 8.0 SP1 the defaults were as follows:

• The supplied setting in the Default FSA Volume Policy and the Default FSA Folder Policy was Archive them.

• The New Policy wizard's supplied default setting was Ignore them, but if you changed the setting then the default reflected the previous choice.