contentACCESS release notes

contentACCESS Version 6.3 SP1

(February 8st, 2024)

Email archive

IMPROVEMENT Folder permission synchronization fails if at least one ACL has an empty trustee
IMPROVEMENT Circular group references cause endless loops in provisioning and archive jobs
IMPROVEMENT Hybrid provisioning cannot process mailboxes with commas in their names
IMPROVEMENT In-place archive functionality is missing from the inPoint Email Restore job
IMPROVEMENT The mailbox is inaccessible due to issues in the distributed processing queue

Teams archive

IMPROVEMENT An extra/unnecessary dot has been removed from the title column in the report for export

SharePoint archive

IMPROVEMENT The “Modified By” and “Created By” user information is replaced by another existing one if that user has been deleted during the recovery process
IMPROVEMENT The recovery job may duplicate existing documents under certain circumstances
IMPROVEMENT A versioning issue has been fixed when re-archiving an already archived document
IMPROVEMENT When converting archived files to shortcuts, it now shortcuts only the items from one of the subfolders
IMPROVEMENT The recovery date is now restored instead of the original date

File archive

IMPROVEMENT Failed to open deleted items in Remote Agent
IMPROVEMENT The application initialization process is inconveniently slow after logging in to Remote Agent
IMPROVEMENT The recovery duration in Remote Agent is taking longer than expected

Common

IMPROVEMENT Error occurs during folder and batch sharing
IMPROVEMENT Error occurs in Portal when recovering folders and items
IMPROVEMENT The search history and search queries are missing in some circumstances
IMPROVEMENT When exporting items to ZIP, the ZIP file cannot be extracted if the name ends with a dot
IMPROVEMENT Errors occur when exporting all folders to ZIP
IMPROVEMENT The “Create task” button sometimes does not work
IMPROVEMENT An unnecessary dot is added to the name of the exported files
IMPROVEMENT Search results may find irrelevant results
IMPROVEMENT The search fails in the Sharing model
IMPROVEMENT Elastic V2 memory limits are still not considered
IMPROVEMENT The contentACCESS user password is not set for the SMTP service during installation

contentACCESS Version 6.3

(November 15th, 2023)
For detailed release notes please click here.

File Archive

NEW Archiving azure file shares − you can archive files even from azure file shares

Common

NEW Video and audio preview − watch and listen to your media directly from the archive
IMPROVEMENT Platform update for web preview − a faster and more stable user experience
IMPROVEMENT Improved job start and stop experience − better status feedback in multi-node environments
NEW mailApp update − contentACCESS 6.3 coming with mailApp 6.3 in the bundle
IMPROVEMENT Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 6.2 Hotfix1

(November 10th, 2023)

Email archive

IMPROVEMENT Provisioning reads only the first 1000 mailboxes for Microsoft 365

Common

IMPROVEMENT Incorrect creation of an additional search index when reaching 200GB

contentACCESS Version 6.2 SP1

(September 14th, 2023)

Common

IMPROVEMENT Memory and minimum storage limit is not setup for Elastic v2
IMPROVEMENT Setup is not able to register ElasticSearch v2 on D drive
IMPROVEMENT DiskStore auto-repair mechanism is not working if the target folder does not exist
IMPROVEMENT contentACCESS update check happens too frequently
IMPROVEMENT Branding issue in inPoint.CSE

Email archive

IMPROVEMENT MailApp fails to load active emails after a certain period of usage
IMPROVEMENT SMTP receives no emails after a certain period of usage

Teams archive

IMPROVEMENT Proxy settings are ignored for some operations

File archive

IMPROVEMENT Archiving of a file fails when the file name is too long

contentACCESS Version 6.2

(July 10thst, 2023)
For detailed release notes please click here.

SharePoint archive

NEW Shortcutting − save space on SharePoint by replacing files with a 1-5kB shortcut or by removing old file versions
NEW Automated site provisioning − a rule-based engine was added which can find site collections and assign them to virtual groups for easier management
NEW Address book − a common location for your SharePoint site collections, OneDrives and groups

Teams archive

NEW Shortcutting SharePoint data − save space on your Teams by replacing Team files by a 1-5kB shortcut or by removing old file versions

Common

IMPROVEMENT Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 6.1 SP1

(May 26st, 2023)

Common

IMPROVEMENT Disk storage performance improvement when handling large files
IMPROVEMENT Error message displayed during task deletion in Portal if the task is in a waiting state
IMPROVEMENT contentACCESS remote agent always runs as 32-bit
IMPROVEMENT Cache handler clean-up messages are filling up the log
IMPROVEMENT The default system proxy configuration was not utilized
IMPROVEMENT Propagated authentication information is accepted by the preview service

Email archive

IMPROVEMENT Slow provisioning in certain AD architectures
IMPROVEMENT Various issues arise when PowerShell is not configured for modern authentication
IMPROVEMENT Problem with mailApp registration for Microsoft 365
IMPROVEMENT Exchange group selection does not pre-select already added group
IMPROVEMENT Recovery plugin fails to start
IMPROVEMENT contentGATE shortcut migration encounters a “file not found” error on the contentACCESS side
IMPROVEMENT Email archive may create an email record without content
IMPROVEMENT Addition of the missing contentaccess.app domain to the mailApp manifest
IMPROVEMENT Index migration if the Exchange mailbox also exists on the GDPR Exchange

Teams archive

IMPROVEMENT Archiving fails if Graph is not able to return the team profile picture
IMPROVEMENT Exchange type selector removed as it is not needed anymore
IMPROVEMENT Teams search app package has double extension
IMPROVEMENT White space at the end of the modern authentication settings is causing issues

File archive

IMPROVEMENT Recovering fails on folders which have empty SDDL information

GDPR

IMPROVEMENT GDPR search has no results

contentACCESS Version 6.1

(11. April 2023)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Email archive

NEW Hybrid Exchange archiving as SaaS − you can now archive hybrid Exchange environment via a contentACCESS instance running as SaaS
IMPROVEMENT REST API for provisioning − using the new REST based management API for mailbox provisioning

Teams archive

NEW Retention changer for chats − allows modifying the retention category for the already-archived team chats
NEW Delete job for chats − allows permanent deletion of team chats from the archive
IMPROVEMENT Extended reactions − supports all message reactions

Common

IMPROVEMENT Introducing the IsActive filter − you can now filter data in jobs based on the existence of the given item in the source system
IMPROVEMENT Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 6.0

(Dec 9th, 2022)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW Search server update – We have moved to the latest version of Elasticsearch
NEW Web preview for documents – allows the users to see a web-based preview of any document or attachment in the archive
NEW Open shortcut in CA Mobile – allows the users to open their shortcuts directly in contentACCESS Mobile
NEW MailApp vNext – is now ready for production with some new features and enhancements
NEW Common log folder for all components – all installed contentACCESS components will use a common configurable log folder
IMPROVEMENT Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 5.4 hotfix 2

(Nov 25th, 2022)

Email archive

IMPROVEMENT Name parameter change – adjustments were made to correspond to the changes that Microsoft has made in the naming convention for Exchange Online mailboxes
IMPROVEMENT Provisioning – optimizations were done to improve the provisioning execution performance for large organizations

contentACCESS Version 5.4 hotfix 1

(Oct 25th, 2022)

Teams archive

IMPROVEMENT Archive job – SQL error during license check if the team does not have any member
IMPROVEMENT Recovery job – if filters are not set, the message is wrong in the report

SharePoint archive

IMPROVEMENT Archive job – SQL error during provisioning

Email archive

IMPROVEMENT Modern authentication – assembly load error in archive job ‘Microsoft.Identity.Client’

SharePoint archive

IMPROVEMENT Archive jobs – items from TEMP folder not being deleted

Common

NEW Report an issue – email address can be override
IMPROVEMENT Report an issue – email addresses updated for OEM versions
IMPROVEMENT LDAP – umlauts are not handled correctly in OUs
IMPROVEMENT contentWEB – each search query is executed multiple times
IMPROVEMENT VirtualDrive – could not load file or assembly ‘System.ServiceModel.Primitives, Version=4.8.1.0
IMPROVEMENT DiskStore – the document recovery method skips encryption
IMPROVEMENT MailApp – login is not working from Safari

contentACCESS Version 5.4

(Sept 30st, 2022)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Teams archive

NEW Retention changer – allows modifying the retention category for the already-archived teams
NEW Delete job – allows permanent deletion of teams from the archive
IMPROVEMENT Extended filtration – the filtration possibilities were extended in all teams-related jobs

Email archive

NEW Folder prefix in mailbox move job – allows you to move emails into a subfolder of the target mailbox

Common

NEW Notification about new version – will let you know if there is newer version of contentACCESS
NEW Sign up for a newsletter – allows you to be informed about the changes and news regarding contentACCESS
NEW Report an issue – allows you to report an issue directly from Central Administration
NEW MailApp vNext – a completely new version of our MailApp with a lot of new features
IMPROVEMENT Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 5.3

(June 9th, 2022)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Teams archiving

NEW

Recovering teams – allows you to recover your deleted or lost Teams metadata and files

IMPROVEMENT

Archiving of team tags – the MS Teams archive and recovery will now include used tags as well

 

Email archiving

NEW

Shortcut deletion flow – the archive job can now delete shortcuts from live mailboxes

NEW

Private emails visibility – you can now control, by setting a role, who can see emails which are marked as private

IMPROVEMENT

Separate roles for mailboxes – you can now define custom default roles for mailboxes, delegated mailboxes, and shared mailboxes

 

File archiving

NEW

Multi-level archiving flow – the archive job now has the same 3 levels of processing as the email archive job: archive, shortcut and delete shortcut

NEW

Shortcut deletion flow – the archive job is now able to delete file archive shortcuts from the shares

 

Common

NEW

Store relocation – you can now move your storage data to a different location and reconfigure the storage in the Central Administration

IMPROVEMENT

contentWEB renamed – to improve clarity, we have decided to rename contentWEB to contentACCESS Portal

IMROVEMENT

Installation package design update – our installation package got a brand-new design

IMROVEMENT

Java version updated – we have updated JAVA to the latest available free version

IMROVEMENT

System user password – to improve security, we will not use the default password for the system user anymore; one must be chosen during the installation

NEW

Common cache folder – you can now configure the common cache folder

NEW

Teams search scope added to contentACCESS Teams app – junior configuration admin role introduced; configuration admin can grant access to mailboxes

IMROVEMENT

Role and permission changes – we have extended the search scopes to allow an easier search of your MS Teams archives

IMROVEMENT

Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 5.2

(January 14th, 2022)
For detailed release notes please click here.

SharePoint archiving

NEW

OneDrive archiving management – the OneDrive archiving configuration was never so easy

IMPROVEMENT

Extended versioning – the new versioning allows you to combine SharePoint and internal contentACCESS versions

IMPROVEMENT

Extended recover functionality – allows to recover data into different locations and to choose the exact point-in-time of the original data you need to recover

 

Email archiving

IMPROVEMENT

Downloaded emails will be saved under the name of their subject – this will provide you with a better readable overview of downloaded files

 

Sharing

NEW

Notifications for downloads – forget about repeated checking if your colleague has downloaded the files you have shared with him. You will be automatically notified by contentACCESS!

 

Common

NEW

Email address introduced to users – this email address will be used for notification purposes

NEW

Detection of a pending invitation – contentACCESS will check automatically if the user trying to access the shared file did not accept his invitation

IMROVEMENT

Elastic search updated to 5.6.16

IMROVEMENT

Improved security

IMROVEMENT

Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 5.1

(August 13th, 2021)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Email archiving

NEW

Extended recover functionality – allows to recover data into different location and specify the point in time what data to recover

NEW

Archiving In-place archive – allows archiving and recovering data in archive mailboxes

NEW

Rights protected message archiving – allows archiving and searching protected messages

NEW

Deleting items not marked for deletion – allows to delete emails with outdated retention, even if the emails have not been marked for deletion

 

File archiving

NEW

Extended recover functionality – allows to recover data into different location and specify the point in time what data to recover

 

Sharing

NEW

Folder sharing – sharing feature is now extended by sharing whole folders or folder structures

 

Common

NEW

File type group filter in index job – allows using predefined groups of file types

NEW

Performance and stability fixes

contentACCESS Version 5.0

(April 16th, 2021)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Sharing from the archive

NEW

SharePoint proxy – allows to share live SharePoint files through the new contentACCESS sharing

NEW

Retention managed by the system – just simply select or specify the expiration day

NEW

Share and send – share the file in a secure way and send it to desired recipients

NEW

Get a sharing link – copy a link pointing to the shared file(s) and share it with desired recipients

NEW

Client integration – in contentWEB, Share app, Teams app, officeGATE

 

contentACCESS

NEW

S/MIME support – possibility to archive/display/shortcut S/MIME emails

IMPROVEMENT

Tenant limits renamed and extended – Tenant limits were renamed to Tenant license and extended with more options

NEW

SharePoint online AAD group permissions support – SharePoint archive now supports SharePoint permissions that are granted through AAD (Azure Active Directory) groups

NEW

Advanced filtering in File Archive restore job – the advanced filtering option was added to the File restore job configuration

NEW

Last access date filter in File archive – available in archive and shortcut sync jobs; allows the administrator to archive/shortcut only the files that were not opened by anyone for a longer time

IMPROVEMENT

Optimized search execution – search execution was improved for a much smoother experience

IMPROVEMENT

Optimized mobile browsing for email archive – mobile view was optimized and improved for email archive

NEW

Legacy MAM post migration support – easily retrieve shortcuts that were stored in PSTs, external systems or local disks

IMPROVEMENT

Progress bar in Central Administration during the internal system update – avoid confusions and see when the update will be done

IMPROVEMENT

Performance and stability fixes

 

Update from older versions

NEW

Update to .NET4.8 – the minimum .NET version was increased from 4.5.2 to 4.8 for all aplications

contentACCESS Version 4.2

(November 30th, 2020)
For detailed release notes please click here.

NEW

Teams private chat archiving – archive meeting, personal and group chats, export your communication

NEW

Hit highlighting – located words highlighted in search results for you to easily find them in longer text

NEW

Search suggestions – suggested text to search for based on available archived items

NEW

Mail app in shared mailboxes – possible to use Mail app in shared mailboxes too

NEW

SMTP server management from Central administration – possible to block domains, IP address, range of IP addresses; changed statistic calculation

contentACCESS Version 4.1

(August 3rd, 2020)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Teams archive

NEW

Private channel archiving – archive channel conversations and private channel files

NEW

Automated teams provisioning – Teams provisioning and archiving is now fully automated

NEW

Teams archive licensing – teams archive is licensed based on the number of users that are members of a team

NEW

SharePoint modern authentication – safer and faster way to authenticate

IMPROVEMENT

Bugfixes and improvements – faster and improved version of the app

 

SharePoint archive

NEW

Modern authentication – safer, faster and easier way to authenticate

 

Mail app

NEW

Search everywhere – search in all contentACCESS archives on all Outlook platforms

 

Tenant provisioning tool

NEW

Teams archive – option to automatically deploy also Teams archive module for a tenant

 

Share app improvements

NEW

Stop sharing – disable downloading of the shared data by other users

NEW

Re-send invitation – re-send invitation if it wasn’t accepted yet

NEW

Switch between public and private sharing – switch between two privacy options

contentACCESS Version 4.0

(June 1st, 2020)
For detailed release notes please click here.

NEW

O365 modern authentication for email archive.

NEW

Teams archiving feature allows unified archive and access for all your Teams data.

contentACCESS Version 3.9 SP3

(April 7th, 2020)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

Configurable Virtual Drive persistent cache path in the installation package – folder to store file changes made during editing through Virtual Drive or file shortcuts.

NEW

Deletion of Email archive Address book objects – remove mailboxes and groups without archived data from the Address book.

NEW

Windows 2019 support – contentACCESS archive server now compatible with Windows 2019.

IMPROVEMENT

Performance and stability improvements – for a much better and faster contentACCESS experience.

contentACCESS Version 3.9 SP2

(February 24th, 2020)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

File archive – turn off versioning
– possible to disable version creation for all file archive jobs on the tenant.

NEW

Virtual drive read-only mode
– possible to disable file modification and version creation for the whole tenant.

contentACCESS Version 3.9 SP1

(January 31st, 2020)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

Retention changer
– allows to change the retention of already archived items (*extra license needed).

NEW

Extended configuration auditing
– logs all important configuration changes and helps with identifying the reason of unexpected behavior.

NEW

EWS impersonation access
– overcomes Microsoft’s throttling policies and makes archiving much faster.

NEW

Extended quick search in contentWEB
– allows the user to search also in subfolders of the currently selected folder.

contentACCESS Version 3.9

(December 2nd, 2019)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

Virtual drive writeback
– Files can be edited directly through shortcuts.

NEW

contentACCESS Teams application
– Search in your contentACCESS archive and share results directly in MS Teams. BETA

 

Email Archive

NEW

FTS archiving for Email archive
– Faster and robust email archiving.

contentACCESS Version 3.8

(June 12th, 2019)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

Disk storage encryption.

NEW

Time zone and time formatting.

NEW

Index zone splitting
into index groups to increase search performance.

IMPROVEMENT

Advanced filtering UI in jobs
– backward compatibility needs to be checked.

IMPROVEMENT

Monitoring data stored in Elasticsearch.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Hybrid exchange
environment support.

NEW

Journal post processing job
– duplicate emails into the mailboxes of all recipients.

NEW

Keep inline attachments option.

NEW

Envelope data stored directly in store.

NEW

Automatic store and database assignment for SMTP.

NEW

Automatic contentWEB access creation option
in Email archive provisioning job.

NEW

Outlook forms authentication for cloud.

IMPROVEMENT

Address book paged loading
– load less items at once, increase the speed and performance.

 

GDPR

NEW

GDPR Exchange requires the user set under Exchange connections to have impersonation rights.

IMPROVEMENT

Incremental GDPR Exchange crawling.

 

Update from older versions

NEW

Outlook forms must be republished
due to authentication changes.

NEW

Old filtering converted to new format
– recommended to check all job filtering settings.

contentACCESS Version 3.7

(February 1st, 2019)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

Task runner and notification job now starting on demand.

NEW

Azure storage using blob store for metadata.

NEW

Maintenance node status
– allow existing jobs to finish without having to restart the already running jobs on a new node.

NEW

Added Czech, Polish and Hungarian localization for our apps.

IMPROVEMENT

Offline synchronization backend for officeGATE improved to work faster.

 

contentACCESS Remote agent

NEW

Centralized management
of remote agents directly from Central Administration.

NEW

Global rules for file archiving and PST import.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Missing folders marked as inactive by the shortcut synchronization job, displayed with grey color in contentWEB.

NEW

PST lookup and import can now be done via RFA client and Central Administration.

NEW

Server-side rendering in contentWEB
– display the emails much faster and without a need of MS Outlook.

IMPROVEMENT

Mail app activation moved
to Address book and is applied by EA Provisioning job.

IMPROVEMENT

The deactivated mailboxes will not appear by default in client applications.

 

ShareApp

NEW

Edit options for shared files directly in app.

IMPROVEMENT

New contentWEB layout for files shared by ShareApp.

contentACCESS Version 3.6 SP2

(November 12th, 2018)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

IMPROVEMENT

SQL database for storing SMTP data.

IMPROVEMENT

Fixed German localization.

IMPROVEMENT

Performance and stability improvements.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Archive local files, Fully localizable HTML shortcuts
– possible to change all text in the V2 templates.

NEW

Keep formatted body option for HTML shortcuts
– Attachment links will be injected into email body without converting it to plain text.

IMPROVEMENT

Paperclip icon is no longer displayed for inline attachments.

contentACCESS Version 3.6 SP1

(September 27th, 2018)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

SnapLock support in DiskStore.

IMPROVEMENT

Fixes in German localization.

IMPROVEMENT

Performance and security updates.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Override settings – set store, retention and shortcut for specific groups or mailboxes on a folder level.

NEW

SQL support for SMTP server component.

 

contentWEB

NEW

Option to hide entity list in “Connect to” menu
– save time and browse entities automatically.

NEW

Option to hide item count in a folder
– don’t query the unnecessary item count from a folder.

IMPROVEMENT

Default sorting of search results by date, if the results contain only Email archive items.

contentACCESS Version 3.6

(July 18th, 2018)
For detailed release notes please click here.

Common

NEW

Arabic & Slovak translation for client applications.

IMPROVEMENT

JAVA is automatically installed by the installation package.

 

contentWEB

NEW

Possibility to define searches and search patterns by using regular expressions and logical AND and OR operators.

NEW

Generate an XLS report containing summary about the selected items with links pointing to the archive.

NEW

Stay GDPR compliant! Create a periodically executed search that will perform all set search actions without the user needing to do anything manually.

 

contentACCESS Mobile

NEW

Forward/Reply a message directly from the app.

IMPROVEMENT

Improved look, hints and feature specifying for easier complex property filtration.

IMPROVEMENT

Unified header look for all pages and View of items settings now being applied to all pages.

IMPROVEMENT

Primary icons are now reflecting the item type.

IMPROVEMENT

Inline attachments are not displayed by default.

 

contentACCESS Sharing

NEW

Share documents only with specific people and have full auditing and rich overview about the downloads.

IMPROVEMENT

Improved design and functions for a better sharing experience.

 

Mail app

NEW

Open original email from search results.

IMPROVEMENT

Inline attachments are hidden
, so the user can now better focus on real attachments.

 

File Archive

NEW

Archive local files, folders and workstations by using RFA.

NEW

Recover document to a different location than original in RFA.

NEW

Job status and job history in RFA.

 

SharePoint Archive

NEW

Recover SharePoint documents/items directly from contentWEB.

NEW

Recover full SharePoint sites and all SharePoint site-related settings.

 

GDPR

NEW

New search layout for GDPR searches
– find all personal data quickly and easily.

contentACCESS Version 3.5

(April 20th, 2018)
For detailed release note please click here.

Email Archive

NEW

Search and sharing functionality added to mail app.

NEW

Mail app archive and restore functions are controlled by roles.

NEW

Separate mailbox view for each user and shortcutting possibility directly by archiving the journal mailbox only.

NEW

New option in shortcut synchronization job to move unknown shortcuts into a separate folder.

NEW

New option in shortcut synchronization job to mark missing items as inactive.

IMPROVEMENT

Updated colors in HTML shortcut template.

 

GDPR

NEW

GDPR feature allows unified search across all company data
, including emails, files and databases.

 

contentWEB

IMPROVEMENT

Manifest file in zip export contains better overview and navigation.

IMPROVEMENT

Export task processing was redesigned to pick up new export tasks while a long one is running.

IMPROVEMENT

A new entity selector with filtration and search was added to the advanced search page.

contentACCESS Version 3.4

(February 2nd, 2018)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

Brand new mobile application
, supporting browsing, searching, sharing and offline access.

NEW

User profile page allows to see and change user details for end users.

IMPROVEMENT

Hosting license information is sent to the licensing system.

IMPROVEMENT

Cluster nodes grouping.

IMPROVEMENT

Single instancing is now optional
in disk storage.

IMPROVEMENT

Auditing was extended to contain the user IP address.

 

Email Archive

IMPROVEMENT

SMTP server management and email address mapping integrated into Central Administration.

IMPROVEMENT

SMTP server integrated into the installation package.

IMPROVEMENT

Shortcutting (off-loading) of calendar items and tasks.

IMPROVEMENT

Address book view split into multiple tabs.

IMPROVEMENT

Automatic mailbox activation at manual archiving.

IMPROVEMENT

Manual server, group and mailbox creation in address book.

 

File Archive

NEW

Shortcut synchronization job.

NEW

Root folder information.

 

SharePoint Archive

NEW

Root folder information.

 

Central Administration

NEW

Role cloning possibility.

IMPROVEMENT

Roles management and visualization improved on user details page.

 

contentWEB

IMPROVEMENT

Search results are now sortable.

IMPROVEMENT

Document retention expiration displayed in the item preview.

contentACCESS Version 3.3 SP1

(October 26th, 2017)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common


NEW

Brand new mobile application, supporting browsing, searching and offline access. BETA
NEW

New Norwegian and Chinese language
for the client applications.

IMPROVEMENT

The job lists are now searchable for job name and type.

FIX

Default database was not assigned on single tenant first installation.

FIX

SQL fallout causes invalid license evaluation.

 

Email Archive

IMPROVEMENT

The shortcut synchronization job is now able to find and clean up orphan shortcuts from the mailboxes.

FIX

Invalid body text encoding was set after restoration.

 

File Archive

NEW

New remote file agent allows archiving of remote file systems and accessing the data in cloud using the local active directory user’s credentials.

FIX

Update issue fixed if there was a non-configured file archive for a tenant.

 

Central Administration

FIX

Tenants button is now displayed for single tenant installation, too.

FIX

Online help link fixed for File and SharePoint delete jobs.

 

contentWEB

FIX

Delete all tasks removed not finished tasks.

FIX

Unhandled exception in search while filtering for partial entity name.

contentACCESS Version 3.3

(August 16th, 2017)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

New full-text engine
included in contentACCESS and search experience redesigned in contentWEB.

NEW

The legal hold feature prevents item deletion while legal hold process is running inside the company.

NEW

contentACCESS is now able to audit every data, accessed by the users.

NEW

New retention options
allow specifying the starting point and unprotected time.

NEW

Delete unwanted or expired documents from archives.

NEW

Work in multiple tabs or browser windows with contentWEB.

NEW

AmazonS3 and compatible storage support.

NEW

Google storage support.

NEW

Single instancing support
in Azure, Google, AmazonS3 (and compatible) storages.

NEW

Users can now use their Perceptive logins to log in to contentACCESS.

NEW

Each tenant is having one dedicated database, which will be used by internal components (legal hold, indexing…).

NEW

Task runner job
, which runs the export tasks executed by the users from contentWEB.

IMPROVEMENT

User are having a default tenant now.

IMPROVEMENT

All users page in Central Administration extended to filter tenant users, foreign user and system administrators.

IMPROVEMENT

Login component made stateless to support load balanced environments.

IMPROVEMENT

Support for Azure login through Microsoft API v1.0.

IMPROVEMENT

Redesigned error page for item download errors.

IMPROVEMENT

Red header color displayed in Central Administration if system tenant is selected.

 

Email Archive

NEW

contentACCESS comes with an SMTP server application, through which it is able to handle and archive virtual mailboxes or archive from any third party emailing system.

NEW

The mail-app now supports the contentACCESS Central login, which allows the users to use any of the supported login types.

IMPROVEMENT

The email archive provisioning is now able to handle mailbox owner or mailbox identifier (GUID) change.

IMPROVEMENT

Email category, flag, unread properties are now stored and updated inside the email archive, so the users can see and search for them.

IMPROVEMENT

Email archive now supports the German Azure cloud.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration shows detailed information about a mailbox, including size, number of items and group membership.

IMPROVEMENT

The exchange connection testing was extended to check all the necessary rights for the given user.

IMPROVEMENT

VSTO add-in can now handle multiple mailboxes, not only attached ones.

 

File Archive

IMPROVEMENT

Logging improved to display more accurate error messages.

IMPROVEMENT

Shortcutting issues are now reported as warnings.

 

contentWEB

NEW

Save/discard button on settings page.

NEW

Default setting for user language and for visibility of active/inactive items.

NEW

Open Central Administration directly from contentWEB.

NEW

Entity name and type icon is displayed in search results.

IMPROVEMENT

Filter option added
to connect to menu which allows filtration and searching.

IMPROVEMENT

Category, flag, read flags are stored in email archive database and regularly updated by shortcut synchronization job.

IMPROVEMENT

Enable or disable folder selection in contentWEB.

IMPROVEMENT

Duplicate action buttons merged into one to increase usability.

IMPROVEMENT

Task processing moved to contentACCESS server for better scalability.

 

officeGATE

NEW

officeGATE now supports the Central login of contentACCESS, which allows the users to use any available login type from contentACCESS.

contentACCESS Version 3.1

(November 14th, 2016)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

Permission management to for a finer role and permission control.

IMPROVEMENT

The earlier redesigned login page works from this version as a common login page.

IMPROVEMENT

An easy way to invite a new user into contentACCESS.

IMPROVEMENT

An easy way to duplicate a job configuration.

IMPROVEMENT

Net.pipe connection availability for contentWEB and Virtual Drive.

IMPROVEMENT

New centralized client application management.

IMPROVEMENT

The redesigned setup package leads through more intuitive setup steps and makes the basic configuration transparent and user friendly. All components are installed by the installation wizard.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Public folder archiving
in contentACCESS.

NEW

New envelop journal message archiving.

IMPROVEMENT

New reply/forward icons for archived messages & automatic forms installer.

IMPROVEMENT

Repair job for the already archived items and their shortcuts.

 

SharePoint Archive

NEW

New SharePoint archive plugin for contentACCESS.

 

Performance Improvements

IMPROVEMENT

Performance improvements for Email Archive.

 

Client Application

NEW

Brand new offline synchronization feature in officeGATE.

NEW

Via the new ShareApp it is easy to send multiple files with various size as a link and make this download available for a limited time with limited number of downloads.

contentACCESS Version 3.0

(July 21th, 2016)
For detailed release note please click here.

mycompanyarchive

NEW

www.mycompanyarchive.com is an email archive solution running in the cloud powered by contentACCESS.

 

Common

NEW

New store type: Azure. Archive your documents into the cloud.

NEW

Tenant limitations managed from Central Administration.

IMPROVEMENT

Redesigned login page
and Microsoft account login support.

IMPROVEMENT

The documentation is now online and built in into the contentACCESS Central Administration.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Shortcut synchronization job
for keeping the live emails (or shortcuts) in sync with the archive.

IMPROVEMENT

Mailbox move feature
support for OEM versions.

IMPROVEMENT

Manual user/group/server import possibility in provisioning.

IMPROVEMENT

Exchange 2016 support.

 

Licensing

NEW

Possibility to deactivate a user mailbox and save a license.

IMPROVEMENT

Proxy support for contentACCESS installations without an internet access.

 

Client Application

NEW

The configurable contentACCESS Mail App enables to switch on/off manual archive or manual restore from the Mail App.

IMPROVEMENT

contentWEB: performance optimizations for contentWEB.

contentACCESS Version 2.9

(May 4th, 2016)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

Possibility to import data from files (CSV, XML, Tab or Space separated text) for Email Archive and File Archive jobs.

NEW

Statistics/Summaries on tenant level for number of mailboxes/files, size, archived items and system statistics.

NEW

It is possible to migrate legacy file and email archives into contentACCESS.

NEW

Storages were extended with the new Hybrid Store and ELM store connectors.

NEW

Licensing shows the limitation and the actual status of license usage.

NEW

New custom plugin was added for easy sharing files via contentACCESS.

IMPROVEMENT

contentWEB is able to display any kind of model available in contentACCESS. The administrator can customize the view by selecting the fields to display.

IMPROVEMENT

offline activation link for comfortable non-assisted offline activation through internet.

IMPROVEMENT

Instead of the fixed virtual drive the setup will assign the first available alphabet letter from the reverse order for the installed virtual drive.

IMPROVEMENT

Performance improvements for File Archive and contentWEB were implemented.

IMPROVEMENT

Transparent opening of contentACCESS shortcuts and legacy shortcuts re supported in OWA 2010.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Exclude folder or/and addresses in email archiving, recovering and restoring by the sender, the recipients or both.

NEW

Legacy archive connector for ELM systems.

IMPROVEMENT

Multi-forest domain and parent-child domain support.

IMPROVEMENT

More stable Exchange connection for load balanced Exchange servers.

IMPROVEMENT

Possibility to add manually an exchange group.

 

File Archive

NEW

Automatic provisioning of Active Directory users, and creating access to the archive for them.

IMPROVEMENT

The required root definition solves the store and database assignment and connection.

IMPROVEMENT

For a big file support streaming process was implemented.

contentACCESS Version 2.8

(January 19th, 2016)
For detailed release note please click here.

Email Archive

IMPROVEMENT

Embedded messages and embedded message attachments are handled separately.

IMPROVEMENT

Extended Email Archive job shortcut configuration
. Shortcut types are defined on two stages.

contentACCESS Version 2.7

(November 16th, 2015)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

Export all emails/documents in folder or search result list in contentWEB.

NEW

Sophisticated administrator settings in contentWEB. The list of functions available for contentWEB users is configurable upon will.

NEW

officeGATE for contentACCESS is now available in German.

IMPROVEMENT

The setup package warns the user if some running applications/services are blocking the update of contentACCESS components and could be a reason for the need of a system restart.

IMPROVEMENT

In Central Administration the user can collapse the job status bar. The ways of changing job properties were simplified.

IMPROVEMENT

To make work more convenient, all grids and tables in Central Administration are remembering the sorting and filtering set.

IMPROVEMENT

Better and nicer User details dialog in Central Administration.

IMPROVEMENT

The list of columns included in the Export manifest file is configurable upon need in contentWEB.

IMPROVEMENT

Folder selection improvements in contentWEB.

 

Email Archive

NEW

OWA 2010 integration. Handle email shortcuts just as non-archived mails in Outlook Web Access 2010.

NEW

Manual recovery for emails in contentWEB
. If some emails have been accidentally deleted, they can be easily recovered.

NEW

The setup package was extended with a Planning section which helps customer to optimize their contentACCESS archive solution.

 

File Archive

NEW

The setup package was extended with a Planning section which helps customer to optimize their contentACCESS archive solution.

NEW

contentACCESS Analysis Tool
. The setup package contains now a tool for analyzing file shares before archiving them with contentACCESS.

NEW

The Remote shortcutting job
is helping companies having a central datacenter with several remote locations. Archive centrally and create shortcuts on the remote file servers pointing to the datacenter.

NEW

Use TECH-ARROW’s WinShortcutter to open shortcuts pointing to archived files on a MAC.

IMPROVEMENT

The age filter was extended with the possibility to use the younger one from the modification date and creation date.

contentACCESS Version 2.6

(October 7th, 2015)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

Scalability with central contentACCESS node management.

NEW

Central Administration. Enhanced job management. Activate, deactivate and delete jobs.

NEW

Central Administration. New job scheduling options.

NEW

Single sign-on for 3rd party DMS.

NEW

Manual recovery of deleted documents in contentWEB.

NEW

Configurable double-click behavior in contentWEB. The archived item can be automatically downloaded on double-click.

NEW

contentACCESS Mobile can be installed and configured as part of contentACCESS.

IMPROVEMENT

Setup. Choose the service user during the installation.

IMPROVEMENT

Setup. Custom database schema support.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Easy navigation to the job logs from the job screen.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Last accessed page is remembered and opened at next log in.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Filtering and sorting in job management.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Configurable history depth for monitoring on system, tenant and job level.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Filtering monitoring events base on type: information, warning and error.

IMPROVEMENT

Better navigation support
in Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Move archived mailboxes to a different store and database.

NEW

MAM EE legacy archive connector
. Browse your legacy archive directly in contentACCESS.

NEW

Full mailbox recovery.

NEW

MAPI connector
for mailbox processing.

NEW

Export archived items into PST or ZIP package in contentWEB.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Wildcard support in global list of excluded message class.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration. Easier configuration of default stores and databases.

IMPROVEMENT

Permission synchronization extended to folder level.

IMPROVEMENT

New documentation about configuring Outlook Forms.

 

File Archive

NEW

Archiving with delete original items.

NEW

File system recovery job.

NEW

Export archived files to a ZIP package in contentWEB.

NEW

Option for showing only active or also inactive items in Virtual Drive.

IMPROVEMENT

Possibility to preserve original modification date
when restoring shortcuts.

IMPROVEMENT

Windows authentication
for Virtual Drive.

contentACCESS Version 2.5

(July 10th, 2015)
For detailed release note please click here.

Common

NEW

Real-time monitoring of jobs.

NEW

Personal profile page of the logged on user, showing login information and role assignments.

IMPROVEMENT

Showing system uptime
and version directly in Central Administration.

IMPROVEMENT

HTTP (port 80) and HTTPS support
via the Proxy Web Services.

IMPROVEMENT

Zero term search in contentWEB.

IMPROVEMENT

contentWEB saves user settings to ease work (last opened view, column settings, etc.).

IMPROVEMENT

Documentation and manuals available in the setup.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Mail app for Exchange 2013, Outlook 2013, OWA 2013s.

NEW

Virtual drive configuration in Central Administration.

NEW

Public Email Archive API available for partners.

NEW

EML support in contentWEB.

IMPROVEMENT

Database and repository allocation in the Email Archive address book for easier and better system configuration.

IMPROVEMENT

Possibility to exclude selected message classes from processing.

FIX

Handling Forward and Reply-to fields in Outlook Forms solved.

 

File Archive

NEW

File system restore job.

IMPROVEMENT

Shortcutting (LNK) support for MAC OS.

contentACCESS Version 2.4

(May 15th, 2015)

Common

IMPROVEMENT

New contentWEB feature
, enhanced preview of a wider range of files, document better version handling.

IMPROVEMENT

Better support for hosting companies and large organizations in means of database and store allocation flexibility.

IMPROVEMENT

Logging & Statistics.
Possibility to set up periodic or immediate notification about job runs.

 

Email Archive

NEW

Exclude Folders filter in jobs.

NEW

Retention time support for inPoint back-end.

IMPROVEMENT

Permission handling improvements.

IMPROVEMENT

Central Administration made more user-friendly and ergonomic.

contentACCESS Version 2.3

(April 9th, 2015)

Common

NEW

Store replication.
Copy the contents of one store to another.

IMPROVEMENT

Logging & Statistics.
Possibility to set up periodic or immediate email notification about job runs.

IMPROVEMENT

Disk Store enhancements: Compression, remote share support with impersonation, MD5 Hash checking at archive time.

 

File Archive

NEW

Long path support.
Possibility to archive files and folders from paths having length longer than 256 characters.

NEW

Virtual Drive.
Attach the archive as a mapped drive.

contentACCESS Version 2.2

(February 20th, 2015)

Common

NEW

New store types available:
Disk, iTernity and inPoint stores.

NEW

Retention policy management.

NEW

contentWEB version 2.0, with enhanced UI.

IMPROVEMENT

Disk Store enhancements: Compression, remote share support with impersonation, MD5 Hash checking at archive time.

IMPROVEMENT

Improved unified access to the archive via officeGATE and contentACCESS mobile.

IMPROVEMENT

Better search possibilities in contentWEB, find documents based on any metadata.

IMPROVEMENT

Better user and group provisioning.

IMPROVEMENT

Easier system set-up and configuration.

 

Email Archive

NEW

EWS support, archiving emails from Office 365.

NEW

Shortcutting support.
Replace emails with customizable shortcuts to spare space. Features: body truncating, attachment and embedded message links, transparent retrieve process using Outlook forms, HTML and Journal shortcuts.

NEW

Full-text search
using the inPoint engine.

IMPROVEMENT

Address book management and synchronization.

 

File Archive

NEW

Long path support.
Possibility to archive files and folders from paths having length longer than 256 characters.

NEW

Virtual Drive
. Attach the archive as a mapped drive.