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Exchange Server and Exchange Mailbox/Public Folder Archiver Configurable Properties
During installation of the Exchange Mailbox, Public Folder and Web Folder iDataAgents, the system automatically creates a default backup set, which contains a default subclient. After installation, you have the option of creating a user-defined backup set, which also will contain a default subclient.
During installation of the Exchange Mailbox Archiver and Exchange Public Folder Archiver Agents, the system automatically creates a default archive set which contains a default subclient. After installation, you have the option of creating a user-defined archive set, which also will contain a default subclient.
See Backup Sets and Archive Sets for information on the different types of backup sets/archive sets.
Once installed, the agent is configured and is therefore able to manage the data or volumes on the client computer. However, you can change certain aspects of the backup set/archive set configuration to manage the data in the manner that best suits your needs.
You can view or change the backup set/archive set configuration from the Backup Set/Archive Set Properties dialog box. The following information can be configured.
Over time, new mailboxes are created to accommodate new Exchange accounts. For the Exchange Mailbox iDataAgent, Exchange Mailbox Archiver Agent, and the Online Content Indexing for Exchange Agent, the system performs an auto-discovery process at the beginning of each backup or migration archiving operation. The auto-discovery process detects any new mailboxes and automatically assigns them to the default subclient (unless otherwise configured for the Exchange Mailbox iDataAgent, Exchange Mailbox Archiver Agent, and the Online Content Indexing for Exchange Agent). While this feature ensures that all the new mailboxes will be automatically backed up/archived, you may want to manually discover and assign new mailboxes to specific subclients yourself. See Discovering and Assigning New Mailboxes for an overview of both manual discovery and auto-discovery assignment processes.
The Exchange Mailbox iDataAgent, Exchange Mailbox Archiver Agent, and the Online Content Indexing for Exchange Agent allow you to specify the assignment method that will be used to back up/archive/content index newly discovered mailboxes for all subclients of a particular backup set/archive set/content index set. Auto-discovered mailboxes can be assigned based on storage group affinity, Active Directory user group affinity, or wildcard pattern (for user-defined subclients only). This feature ensures that all the new mailboxes will be automatically backed up/content indexed/scanned for archiving. For these agents, you must first enable auto-discovery at the archive set / backup set / content index set level and specify the assignment method in order to auto-discover and assign new mailboxes. See Configure Mailboxes for Auto-Discovery for step-by-step instructions.
See the Exchange Agents: Other User Accounts section in User Accounts and Passwords for more information.
The following pertains to Exchange Database:
| One or more of the agents of this type use one or more accounts that are configured from a non-Properties dialog box. See the appropriate section for your agent(s) in User Accounts and Passwords for more information. |
You can perform the following functions:
For more information, see User Administration and Security.