How Enterprise Vault sets folder properties

By default, all folders in your mailbox have the Enterprise Vault property Use parent folder settings selected. This means that all folders inherit the Enterprise Vault archiving settings, retention category, and vault that are set up for your mailbox. Until you change the values for a particular folder, Enterprise Vault archives all items with the same retention category and stores them in the same vault.

You can override the parent folder settings by changing the Enterprise Vault properties for a folder. If a folder contains other folders, those folders also inherit the properties of the parent folder unless you change them.

For example, you may have a folder called Accounts Paid with a retention category of Finance. By default, all subfolders in Accounts Paid use the same retention category. To use a different retention category for one of the subfolders in Accounts Paid, you must change the Enterprise Vault properties for that subfolder.

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