Change retention category on archived items
Hello everybody,
I need one clarification since I was reading different answers on different forums and articles.
I have implemented FSA Enterprise Vault for file archiving.
My colleague which was installing EV at beginnig set default Retention Category for all archives (default category state that all archives are preserve forever)
I was thinking to change retention category to 10 years, so my question is, how it's gonna affect on current archives?
Are they gonna get new setting (ID) from new retention category when new tas run, or they will keep their current retention settings?
Thank you in advance
Hello Soxy,
Confusing indeed
If you need you OLD/existing archives (or better, the items in those archives) to also have the new retention value, you need to change the EXISTING retention policy.
If you create a new retention policy, then set that as default, it will only apply to items archived as of the time that new category was enabled. This means that old items will stay forever, and new items will (eventually) expire.
If you have an ok from the company (legal/compliance etc) to change the retention to 10 years, I would change the current active retention category to that, to make sure already archived items will expire when older than 10 years.
