Adding a SharePoint URL as an archiving target

This section describes how to add SharePoint archiving targets in the Enterprise Vault Administration Console. The SharePoint archiving target objects in the Administration Console tree (Targets > SharePoint) are associated with parts of the SharePoint site architecture:

Note that, before you can configure the archiving target objects in Enterprise Vault, the SharePoint virtual server or Web application and site collections must exist in SharePoint and the Enterprise Vault components must be installed and configured on the SharePoint server.

Internet Explorer security settings must also be set up as described in Creating a SharePoint task.

To add a SharePoint target object

  1. Under Targets, right-click the SharePoint container and select New, SharePoint target.

  2. This starts a wizard. Click Next on the first screen.

  3. Enter the URL for the virtual server or Web application.

    Click Next.

  4. If you want Enterprise Vault to archive automatically all sites on this target, select the Auto-enable Site Collections check box. The wizard will then take you through screens that enable you to select the task, policy, vault store and retention category to be used for all sites on this SharePoint target.

    If auto-enable archiving is on, site collection objects will be added automatically under the SharePoint target object the first time the archiving task runs, and a new archive will be created automatically for each of these site collections. Subsites will also be archived using the default settings for the target site collection object, but target subsite objects will not be displayed in the Administration Console. Documents in subsites will be stored in the archive for the top-level site collection.

    If you do not want Enterprise Vault to archive some top-level sites, or you want to assign a different policy, retention category or task, clear the Auto-enable Site Collections check box. The wizard will then go directly to the final summary screen. You will need to create target site collection objects manually for any site collections that you do want archived.

  5. Before the SharePoint target object is created, a summary of the object details is displayed. If they are correct, click Finish and then Close to exit the wizard.

More Information

Creating archiving target site collections