You can either create a new vault store to use for SharePoint archives, or you can assign an existing vault store.

If you want to use a new vault store, create the vault store and partition before you create the SharePoint Archiving Target.

When the archiving task runs, archives are created automatically in the open vault store partition. An archive is created for each SharePoint site collection. In the Administration Console tree, you can see the archives under "Archives", "SharePoint". Note that documents in the top level site and all subsites of that site collection are stored in the same archive.

Access permissions on Enterprise Vault archives and archive folders are synchronized automatically with permissions on the corresponding SharePoint sites and document libraries.

You can view and customize the properties of vault stores, partitions and archives by right-clicking the object in the Administration Console and selecting "Properties". For information on the properties for each object, see the Administration Console online help.