contentACCESS documentation – version 3.1

  1. Introduction to contentACCESS
    1. Services provided by contentACCESS
    2. Software requirements
  2. contentACCESS setup package
    1. Installation of contentACCESS
  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
  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. General use cases of how to create/assign roles
      7. Managing access to contentACCESS objects
    6. Login providers
      1. Login providers’ context menu options
      2. External login provider configuration
      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. Distributed environment in contentACCESS — Clusters
    12. Statistics
    13. How to create/configure databases — All databases
  7. Common features
    1. Databases
    2. Schedules
    3. Retentions
    4. Storages
    5. Exchange connections
      1. Exchange performance settings – turning off the Exchange throttling policies
      2. Hybrid 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
    11. Configuring aliases
    12. Configuration of jobs available in contentACCESS File Archive
    13. Configuration of File system archive job
    14. Configuration of a File system restore job
    15. Configuration of File system recovery job
    16. Configuration of Remote shortcutting job
    17. 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
    5. Retention settings
    6. Shortcuts in email archiving
    7. Storing of archived emails
    8. Creating email archive schedulers
    9. User experience
    10. Exchange 2013+: Mail app in OWA 2013+ or on MS Outlook 2013+ desktop version
    11. Exchange 2010: OWA 2010 integration
    12. Address book objects
    13. Granting access rights for mailbox users and explicit users to view the mailbox archive
    14. Creating contentWEB users (option 1)
    15. Manage access to a mailbox archive (option 2)
    16. Database and store assignment in email archiving
    17. How to assign database and storage to an Exchange group?
    18. How to assign database and storage to a mailbox?
    19. How to move data from source database/storage into a second (target) database/storage?
    20. Creating Email archive jobs: archive, restore, recovery, mailbox move, shortcut synchronizaion, shortcut repair
    21. Email archive job
      1. Email archive job configuration
    22. Email restore job
      1. Email restore job configuration
    23. Email recovery job
      1. Email recovery job configuration
    24. Mailbox move job
      1. Mailbox move job configration
    25. Shortcut synchronization job
      1. Shortcut synchronization job configuration
    26. Shortcut repair job
      1. Shortcut repair job configuration
    27. 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 hybrid Exchange environments
  12. SharePoint archive plugin
    1. SharePoint Archive settings
    2. SharePoint Archive job configuration
    3. SharePoint recovery job configuration
    4. SharePoint archive Provisioning settings
    5. SharePoint Publishing job
    6. SharePoint in the contentWEB archive
  13. Custom plugins
    1. Email management job configuration
    2. Storage replication plugin
    3. Sharing plugin
    4. Datengut plugin
    5. Email synchronizer plugin
  14. officeGATE
  15. accessGATE Mobile
  16. Virtual drive configurations
  17. Application settings
  18. Terms of use
  19. 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 problem
    5. Unable to open shortcuts of archived file 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

11.27.Public folder archiving

Definition of terms:
Public folder – one folder in the public folder hierarchy
Public folder hierarchy – the tree of all public folders in the organization
Public folder database – special Exchange database (2007, 2010) holding public folders
Public folder mailbox – special Exchange mailbox (2013, 2016) holding public folders
Archive public folder mailbox – contentACCESS representation of public folder (virtual mailbox)

contentACCESS allows to archive public folders in an organization. Individual public folders or folder hierarchies can be archived just as any other mailbox items, and they can be replaced by shortcuts as well. Archiving the public folders with contentACCESS offers many advantages. You can archive using shortcuts and save storage space, still ensuring quick access to the desired items directly from your mailbox. The items can be restored from shortcuts, and they can also be recovered if they have been deleted. You can browse for your public folder items in the archive using contentWEB. User-access to the archived content is comfortable and extremely fast.

contentACCESS is supporting a wide range of Exchange Servers, starting from Exchange 2007 SP1 up to Exchange 2016. Public folders can be hosted on as many servers as desired. Even the public folders can be hosted by multiple servers, contentACCESS treats them as one entity (i.e. on mailbox).

Note: If you have a hybrid Exchange environment (e.g. both Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2016) and want to archive public folders, set the highest Exchange server version containing the public folders on the Email archive System settings page, in section EWS settings. On the same page, in section General settings, the Public folder access must be set to an email address from the highest Exchange server containing public folders.

The default contentACCESS setting is not to archive public folders, because not every organization has public folder on the Exchange server. Public folder archiving must be set individually in Email Archive => Settings => System settings, under section General settings.

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Allow to archive public folders: If you want to archive public folders, this option must be selected, otherwise the provisioning job will ignore them. If public folder archiving is turned on and later off, the existing archive public folder mailbox is not removed (nor disabled). It will be simply not archived further, but the existing data remain in the archive.

Note: Restore and recover will also not work if public folders are turned off.

Public folder access: The “Public folder access” is an email address. It is recommended to set this value to the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) address of the superuser. If this value is changed, it is necessary to run the email provisioning job.

The public folders are synchronized to the contentACCESS address book by the email archive provisioning job. If public folder archiving is turned off in the System settings, the public folders are completely ignored:

  • If there is no archive public folder mailbox yet, it will not be created
  • If there is already an archive public folder mailbox, it is not actualized

If public folder archiving is turned on, the provisioning will do the following after all mailboxes are processed:

  • Search for public folder databases (Exchange 2007-2010) using PowerShell
  • Search for public folder mailboxes (Exchange 2013-2016) using PowerShell
  • If there is no public folder found at all, the process is cancelled
  • If there are more public folders found, it always picks the newest ones (if there is Exchange 2013/2016 public folder mailbox found, that will be used)
  • If there is no “archive public folder mailbox” yet, it is created
  • If there is already an “archive public folder mailbox”, the email address is updated from the System settings (if the system settings were changed, this step actualizes the value)

As the last step, all contentACCESS users (belonging to the same domain) are granted the “User” role on the public folder mailbox (the users will be able to select the “Public folders” in contentWEB).
The provisioned public folders have a separate section in the contentACCESS Address book.

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The context menu options allow to assign a database and storage to the public folders to be archived as for Exchange groups or mailboxes. It’s also possible to activate/deactivate the public folders on the license server, to set contentWEB permissions to them (option “Manage access”) or to move the content to a mailbox. The “Access email” column displays the value from the System settings page (section “General settings”) and is actualized by the provisioning job if has been changed.

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