SPAA: Additional Scoping
Use the Additional Scoping page to limit the scan by depth. It's a wizard page for the categories of:
- Scan SharePoint Access
- Scan For Sensitive Content
Don't change scans in a way that results in returning less data on a subsequent scan (i.e. scanning fewer web applications, scanning fewer site collections, or a shallower depth scan). Access Analyzer marks resources not included in a subsequent scan as deleted in the Tier 2 database and later removes them from the Tier 1 database.
If checked, set the Limit scanned depth to: [number] levels option to the depth you want. If you don't check this option, Access Analyzer scans the entire farm. If you set the scoping depth to 0, Access Analyzer scans only root site collections. Each increment to the depth adds an additional level of depth from that point.
Check the Perform differential scan box to enable the job to run a differential scan. Access Analyzer enables differential scanning by default. When you enable this option, the SPAA scan will only parse files for content/SDD if they changed since the last scan.
This option only applies to Tag collection and Sensitive data collection. Access Analyzer will still scan files for permissions regardless of whether you check this option.