contentACCESS documentation – version 3.7

  1. Introduction to contentACCESS
    1. Services provided by contentACCESS
    2. Software requirements
  2. contentACCESS setup package
    1. Installation of contentACCESS
      1. EULA
      2. Installation type
      3. Components
      4. Prerequisites
      5. Base folder
      6. Service settings
      7. Database connection
      8. contentACCESS Central Administration
      9. contentACCESS Web Services (Proxy)
      10. contentWEB
      11. Central login
      12. Virtual drive
      13. Search service
      14. SMTP server
      15. Overview
      16. Installation
      17. Summary
  3. contentACCESS components
    1. contentACCESS Central Administration
      1. Central administration login
      2. contentACCESS Automated single sign on
      3. Central Administration logout
      4. contentACCESS Central Administration user interface
    2. contentWEB
      1. Logging in to contentWEB
      2. contentWEB Automated single sign on
    3. Virtual drive
    4. contentACCESS Web Services (Proxy)
    5. Central login page
  4. contentACCESS Tools
    1. Installing Outlook forms
    2. Legacy email archive connectors
    3. Legacy archive connector for Metalogix Archive Manager Exchange Edition (MAM EE)
    4. Legacy archive connector for Email Lifecycle Manager (ELM)
    5. Installing TECH-ARROW’s WinShortcutter
    6. contentACCESS Outlook add-in
      1. Installation of contentACCESS Outlook add-in
      2. How to use contentACCESS Outlook add-in
  5. Tenants in contentACCESS
    1. How to create a new tenant
    2. Tenant limitations
    3. How to provide access to a tenant (adding new tenant administrators)
    4. Tenant administrator invitation types
    5. Tenant associations
      1. Tenant - database association
      2. Tenant - user association
    6. Tenant deletion
  6. General system configurations
    1. Connection
    2. User interface
    3. Users in contentACCESS
    4. Invitations
    5. Roles
      1. Creating roles
      2. Role details
      3. Role assignment
      4. Defining specific permissions of a role assignment
      5. Editing roles, editing role assignments
      6. Role cloning
      7. General use cases of how to create/assign roles
      8. Managing access to contentACCESS objects
    6. Login providers
      1. Login providers’ context menu options
      2. External login provider configuration
        1. Configuring Google OAuth
        2. Configuring Office 365 login provider
        3. Exchange login provider
        4. External AD login provider
      3. Associating an enabled provider with a user login
      4. contentACCESS users in third party systems
    7. System
    8. Licensing
      1. How to activate your license key
    9. Notifications
    10. Monitoring — how to find out possible misconfigurations / reasons of potential system/job failures
    11. Auditing
    12. Distributed environment in contentACCESS — Clusters
    13. Statistics
    14. Legal hold
    15. Task runner
    16. Indexing
    17. SMTP Servers
    18. SMTP Mappings
    19. How to create/configure databases — All databases
  7. Common features
    1. Databases
    2. Schedules
    3. Retentions
    4. Storages
      1. Google drive storage
      2. Amazon S3
    5. Exchange connections
      1. Exchange performance settings – turning off the Exchange throttling policies
      2. Mixed Exchange environments in the Email Archive system
    6. Importing contentACCESS configurations from files
      1. Manual import of Exchange servers/groups/mailboxes to the contentACCESS Address book
      2. Importing File Archive root folders to be archived
  8. Creating new jobs in contentACCESS
  9. Jobs’ page, jobs’ context menu
  10. File Archive
    1. Introduction to File system archive
    2. File archive settings
    3. File archive Databases
    4. File archive System settings
    5. File archive Retentions
    6. File archive Storages
    7. Root folders
    8. Aliases
    9. File archive Schedules
    10. Provisioning settings and managing access to contentWEB
      1. File system provisioning job description
    11. Remote agents (file archive)
    12. Global rules (remote file archive)
    13. Configuring aliases
    14. Configuration of jobs available in contentACCESS File Archive
    15. Configuration of File system archive job
      1. File system archive job description
    16. Configuration of a File system restore job
      1. File system restore job description
    17. Configuration of File system recovery job
      1. File system recovery job description
    18. Configuration of Delete job in File archive
      1. File system delete job description
    19. Configuration of File system shortcut synchronization job
      1. File system shortcut synchronization job description
    20. Configuration of Remote shortcutting job
      1. File system remote shortcutting job description
    21. Active/inactive documents in File system archive
  11. Email Archive
    1. Important settings before creating an Email Archive job
    2. Database settings
    3. Email archive System settings
    4. Email archive Provisioning settings
      1. Email archive provisioning job description
    5. Retention settings
    6. Shortcuts in email archiving
    7. Storing of archived emails
      1. LoboDMS storage
    8. Creating email archive schedulers
    9. User experience
      1. Exchange 2013+: Mail app in OWA 2013+ or on MS Outlook 2013+ desktop version
      2. Exchange 2010: OWA 2010 integration
    10. Address book objects
      1. Adding address book objects manually
    11. Granting access rights for mailbox users and explicit users to view the mailbox archive
      1. Creating contentWEB users (option 1)
      2. Manage access to a mailbox archive (option 2)
    12. Database and store assignment in email archiving
      1. How to assign database, storage and index zone to an Exchange group?
      2. How to assign database, storage and index zone to a mailbox?
      3. How to move data from source database/storage into a second (target) database/storage?
    13. Mail app access
    14. Remote agents (email archive)
    15. PST import
      1. PST import job description
    16. Creating Email archive jobs: archive, restore, recovery, delete, mailbox move, shortcut synchronizaion, shortcut repair
    17. Email archive job
      1. Email archive job configuration
      2. Email archive job description
      3. Email archive journal processing
    18. Email restore job
      1. Email restore job configuration
      2. Email restore job description
    19. Email recovery job
      1. Email recovery job configuration
      2. Email recovery job description
    20. Configuration of Delete job in Email archive
      1. Email delete job description
    21. Journal post processing job
      1. Journal post processing job configuration
    22. Mailbox move job
      1. Mailbox move job configration
      2. Mailbox move job description
    23. Shortcut synchronization job
      1. Shortcut synchronization job configuration
      2. Email shortcut synchronization job description
    24. Shortcut repair job
      1. Shortcut repair job configuration
      2. Email shortcut repair job description
    25. Public folder archiving
      1. How to configure a job to archive public folders
      2. Public folders in the contentWEB archive
      3. User permissions to public folders
      4. Public Folder archiving in mixed Exchange environments
    26. SMTP archiving
  12. SharePoint archive plugin
    1. SharePoint Archive settings
    2. SharePoint Archive job configuration
      1. SharePoint archive job description
    3. SharePoint recovery job configuration
      1. SharePoint recovery job description
    4. Configuration of Delete job in SharePoint archive
      1. SharePoint delete job description
    5. SharePoint archive Provisioning settings
      1. SharePoint provisioning job description
    6. SharePoint Publishing job
      1. SharePoint publishing job description
    7. SharePoint in the contentWEB archive
  13. GDPR plugin
    1. GDPR Settings
      1. GDPR Databases
      2. GDPR Schedules
      3. GDPR Index zones
    2. GDPR Processing
      1. GDPR File system settings
      2. GDPR Exchange settings
      3. GDPR Applications
      4. GDPR Jobs
        1. GDPR File system job
          1. GDPR file system job description
        2. GDPR Exchange job
          1. GDPR Exchange job description
        3. GDPR Application job
          1. GDPR application job description
  14. Custom plugins
    1. Email management job configuration
    2. Storage replication plugin
    3. Sharing plugin
    4. Datengut plugin
    5. Email synchronizer plugin
    6. Categorize to Public folders plugin
    7. LoboDMS plugin
  15. ThreatTest
    1. ThreatTest configuration
      1. ThreatTest Databases
      2. ThreatTest System settings
      3. ThreatTest Schedules
      4. ThreatTest User experience
      5. ThreatTest Statistics
      6. ThreatTest Job
    2. Using ThreatTest App
  16. officeGATE
  17. contentACCESS Mobile
  18. Virtual drive configurations
  19. Application settings
  20. Terms of use
  21. FAQ
    1. Download sample for the file to be imported does not work
    2. Archiving is not working if MAPI is set to communicate with the Exchange server
    3. Virtual drive is still appearing after the uninstall
    4. Outlook forms problems
    5. Unable to open shortcuts of archived files on the server side
    6. Samples are not shown using 'Show sample" option in the Import dialog
    7. Do I need to create separate tenants for file archiving and email archiving
    8. What is the recommended database size for email, file and Sharepoint archiving
    9. The TEMP folder is running out of space when archiving big files
    10. The attachment could not be opened
    11. After updating Exchange 2013, the EWS connection might not work in contentACCESS
    12. If Windows authentication is not working in contentACCESS and an alias was created for contentACCESS
    13. contentACCESS Outlook add-in certificate issue
    14. PowerShell scripts for setting up Email archive
    15. Solution for Outlook security patches
    16. Solution for Outlook security patches through GPO
    17. Solution for indexing PDF files
    18. O365 SuperUser mailbox configuration
    19. Office365 journaling
    20. Organizational forms
    21. Multifactor authentication

11.15.PST import

Go to Email archive -> Remote agents -> PST import.
On this page it is possible to manage the PST files that were uploaded by Remote File archiving agent (read more here). The PST files are stored in the resource storage.

To make PST files appear on this list (and be able to manage them), one of the following needs to be done as the first step:

1) Upload PST files via RFA

If the PST files are uploaded this way, they can be managed right away.

2) Use the 1. Configure scanning and 2. Start scan options

First, click on the 1. Configure scanning button. The configuration page of the global PST import rule opens. On this page it’s possible to add new folders to the global rule, assign it to remote agents, disable it or view its statistics.

To add new folders to be scanned to the global PST import rule, click on + new. Enter the path of the folder, where the remote agents have their PST files to be imported located. Specify explicit user credentials if necessary and click OK.

Click on the rule and then on Assign to agents. The agent selection window will open. Pick the agent(s) whom you want to assign the rule to or check the Automatically assign to all workstations checkbox. Click on Select.


Save your changes using the Save button in the upper left corner.

Go back to the PST import page. Click on the 2. Start scan button. This will make the global rule appear in the list of PST import jobs for the selected remote agents.

The remote agents now have to start the job (rule). After the rule is finished, the PST files from the global rule folders will appear in the list of PST files in PST import tab and the administrator will be able to manage them.

Note: The PST files will NOT be uploaded to contentACCESS yet, only loaded to the list. The upload will come in a later step.


The second step is to match the PST files with target mailboxes. This can be done by one of the following:

1) Manually assigning the mailboxes

Select the desired PSTs by checking their checkbox on the left, then click on the + Assign mailbox button (or select the option from the context menu of a file). The mailbox selection window will open. Pick one of the available mailboxes and click Select.


2) Automatically assigning the target mailbox

By selecting a PST and clicking on the 3. Discover ownership button, the system will try to match the selected PST with one of the available mailboxes based on its name.

The third step is to upload the files to contentACCESS. This can be done by using the 4. Upload button. It is also possible to Allow import by checking the corresponding checkbox in this step. Click OK.


If the import was not allowed in the third step, it needs to be allowed in the fourth step by selecting the desired PST file(s) and clicking on the Allow import button.

The fifth step is to configure the PST import job. This can be done by clicking on the 5. Import button. The job will assign Database and Storage to those mailboxes that are associated with at least one PST file and don’t have a database and/or storage assigned yet. Database, storage and index zone can be assigned also from the context menu of the mailbox in Address book.

The job configuration page opens. Here, the following has to be set:

✓ Database settings

Select an already configured connection from the dropdown list. Here the metadata will be stored. For further information on how to set database connections please refer to section Databases.

✓ Scheduling settings

In this step, the running time(s) of the PST import job must be selected. It is possible either to select a scheduler from the list or to create a new scheduler via create new … option from the dropdown list. For more information about how to set schedulers refer to the section Schedules.

✓ Storage settings

Choose an already configured storage from the dropdown list. The processed binaries will be stored here. For more information on how to set storages check section Storages.

✓ Retention settings

Choose an already configured retention time from the dropdown list. The processed PSTs will be stored during this time in the storage, and it will be impossible to delete them from there. It is highly recommended to select a retention time that is required by the law of your country. For more information about how to set retentions check section Retentions.

✓ Include folders

PST import job is crawling the entire mailbox or recursive folder structures from the PST files for further processing. Before you enter the folder name(s) to be crawled, it is necessary to select the folder filtering type. The folder filtering type is described in more details in this section.

✓ PST processing settings

Root folder – if you specify a folder here, emails from the root folders will be imported into the folder defined here.
Prefix – all of the PST files will be imported into a folder defined here.

✓ Exclude folders

With this function, you may set which folders/subfolders should not be imported. If you would not like to exclude any folder from the process, you can skip these settings.
The folders may be excluded using one of the available methods: a) They may be added manually via the + new option; b) they may be imported in one of the available file formats via the import option. Folder excluding is described in more details in this section.

✓ Item filtering

This configuration enables filtering among your items by their message class. Using this filter, the user will be allowed to select different document types, such as mails, documents, contacts etc. to be imported.

✓ Notification settings

Select here, when you will need to get notification emails from the PST import job. It is possible to set here if you need such a notification email always/never, or you need it only in case that an error/warning occurred during the importing process − for example, if the import of one or more items failed, then you may get a notification email about this error. Into the Recipient list textbox insert the email address(es) of the person(s), who will get such notifications. Notifications should be used if the administrator does not use the monitoring feature.

✓ Resource settings

Set the value, which will determine how many items will be processed simultaneously by the PST import job. The recommended value is “2”.

Save your changes and start the job! The PST files will now be imported to the associated mailboxes.

If the import was allowed for a PST file, but the user then decided not to import that file, it can be denied by clicking on Deny import button (or select the option from the context menu of a file).

In case a PST file is not needed anymore, it can be deleted from the list by clicking on the Delete button (or select the option from the context menu of a file).

It is possible to export the list of available (or just selected) PST files to XLS or CSV file.

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