contentACCESS documentation – version 5.1

  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)
      1. Installing Legacy MAM retrieve service and its configuration on the MAM server
      2. Configuration of the MAM server in contentACCESS Central Administration
    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
      1. How to edit and disable a 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. System logs — how to find out possible misconfigurations / reasons of potential system/job failures
    11. Configuration auditing
    12. Archive auditing
    13. Distributed environment in contentACCESS — Clusters
    14. Statistics
    15. Legal hold
    16. Task runner
    17. Indexing
    18. SMTP Servers
    19. SMTP Mappings
    20. Sharing job
    21. Sharing settings
    22. 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. Filtering in jobs
  11. 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 archive retention changer job
    16. Configuration of File system archive job
      1. File system archive job description
    17. Configuration of a File system restore job
      1. File system restore job description
    18. Configuration of File system recovery job
      1. File system recovery job description
    19. Configuration of Delete job in File archive
      1. File system delete job description
    20. Configuration of File system shortcut synchronization job
      1. File system shortcut synchronization job description
    21. Configuration of Remote shortcutting job
      1. File system remote shortcutting job description
    22. Active/inactive documents in File system archive
  12. Email Archive
    1. Important settings before creating an Email Archive job
    2. Database settings
    3. Email archive System settings
      1. Hybrid exchange settings
      2. Email archive registration on Azure portal for Modern authentication
    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
      2. Removing groups and mailboxes from the Address book
    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
        1. Recommendations after turning on journal archive
      4. Archiving of rights protected messages
    18. Email archive retention changer job
    19. Email restore job
      1. Email restore job configuration
      2. Email restore job description
    20. Email recovery job
      1. Email recovery job configuration
      2. Email recovery job description
    21. Configuration of Delete job in Email archive
      1. Email delete job description
    22. Journal post processing job
      1. Journal post processing job configuration
    23. Mailbox move job
      1. Mailbox move job configration
      2. Mailbox move job description
    24. Shortcut synchronization job
      1. Shortcut synchronization job configuration
      2. Email shortcut synchronization job description
    25. Shortcut repair job
      1. Shortcut repair job configuration
      2. Email shortcut repair job description
    26. 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
    27. SMTP archiving
  13. SharePoint archive plugin
    1. SharePoint Archive settings
    2. SharePoint Archive job configuration
      1. SharePoint archive job description
    3. SharePoint archive retention changer job configuration
    4. SharePoint recovery job configuration
      1. SharePoint recovery job description
    5. Configuration of Delete job in SharePoint archive
      1. SharePoint delete job description
    6. SharePoint archive Provisioning settings
      1. SharePoint provisioning job description
    7. SharePoint Publishing job
      1. SharePoint publishing job description
    8. SharePoint in the contentWEB archive
  14. 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
  15. Teams archive
    1. Teams archive databases
    2. Teams archive System settings
    3. Teams archive Provisioning settings
    4. Teams archive Address book
      1. Removing objects from Teams archive Address book
    5. Teams archive Licensing
    6. Teams archive Jobs
      1. Teams archive job
      2. Teams chat archive job
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. officeGATE
  19. contentACCESS Mobile
  20. Virtual drive configurations
  21. Teams application
  22. Application settings
  23. Terms of use
  24. 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
    22. Region setting
    23. contentACCESS Mail app installation issue
    24. Azure app registration

6.10.System logs — how to find out possible misconfigurations / reasons of potential system/job failures

Navigate to System ⇒ Logs and auditing ⇒ Documentation122.1 System logs button.

The System logs feature enables to check the currently running or in the past run system or job related events very easily. The user can check here all desired system events such as system updates, shutdowns, startups, system component updates, or possible system errors etc. In System logs feature, the user also has the chance to check all possible failure details that might happen during the running of the jobs, so it makes the troubleshooting easier.

If you first open System logs, you can see the following basic parts on the interface: Runs of the jobs or system on the left side (red frame); system and job events on the right side (green frame). With clicking on the Refresh button (purple arrow) you can also check the real-time running jobs. With this button it is possible to reload the current runs/event from the database. With a single click on the collapse all/expand all buttons (indicated with blue arrows) you can expand or collapse all sessions for all jobs. It is also enabled to list among the events at the bottom of the System logs page (orange frame).

Sorting in System logs: sorting option is enabled both in the Runs and Events tables. Click on the particular column name (Start date, End date by the runs, Date, Title, Description, Job by the events), and the items will be displayed in the reverse order.

Setting of maximum history count of the runs: With this option it is possible to set, how many job runs the user would like to keep. If the value is set to 10 for example, and a job has run 20 times, then only the last 10 runs can be viewed, remaining 10 will be deleted and the user will not have an access to them. It is recommended to set a higher value here, if a job is running too often, or during the weekends, and the user needs to view the events retroactively.
This value is always inherited from the higher level. There are three levels altogether, where the history counter can be adjusted; the system is the highest level, the next is tenant level and the last one is the level of jobs.

  • System level settings are accessible with right mouse click on a system related job in the column of Runs; here click on Settings, and adjust these settings in the System level monitoring setting dialog.

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  • Tenant level monitoring settings are inherited from the system, i.e. if maximum history count is set on “10” on system level, then the same value will apply for the tenant level monitoring settings, too. Nevertheless it is possible to configure the tenant level settings independently from the system settings. Click on the Settings button and set the required value into the Tenant level monitoring settings dialog. If the tenant level settings are set independently, it can be still adjusted to the system settings with a click on the “inherit from system” option in the Tenant level monitoring settings dialog.

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  • Job level monitoring settings can be adjusted with clicking on the particular job running in the column of Runs and configuring these settings in the Job level monitoring setting dialog. These settings are inherited from the tenant by default. Nevertheless it is still possible to set another value with a right click on the particular job in the Runs column, select here Settings and set the maximum history count in the dialog. This value can be adjusted to the default value inherited from tenant with clicking on the “inherit from tenant” option in the same dialog.


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Filtration in System logs: If the user would like to check details of a certain system/job running, then he can also filter among the jobs under Filtration ⇒ Jobs: dropdown list. If it is necessary to check the system/job events that run in a certain period of time, then it is possible to further filter among these items with setting the Start date and the End date under filtering options. Under Event types it is allowed to filter among event types occurred in the actually selected events. An event type filter is also available at the bottom of the Event types dropdown list. Using this filter it is possible to sort out all events which belong to one of the 3 event groups [1. error (Documentation131.1), 2. warning (Documentation131.2) or 3. note (Documentation131.3]. Click on the mark of the particular event group next to “Select”, and the selected events will be displayed. On screenshot below, we sorted out all the notes (with a click on “Documentation131.3” mark).

Note: If the logged in user is a system administrator, then he will be allowed to see the system related events, if he has tenant administrator rights, then he will be allowed to check the tenant related events using monitoring feature.



The Export function makes it easy to save the reviewed events into XML, CVS or HTML. The report contains all necessary information (date, job ID, Message, Details) which enable to have a look at the desired information, and also identify possible failures very quickly. This enables a very quick access to the system/job processing information and also ensures a very quick troubleshooting in case of need.

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On the below displayed screenshot we have filtered out Mailbox Provisioning Job and TA_ Email Archive job and set 1st of July 2015 as Start date, and 8th of July as End date. Among event types we have also set All events. This filter will find all the events related to these 2 jobs, which happened in this time interval.

Under Runs section click on the arrow mark next to the job and the last run times will be opened. In the table of Events at the right side of the screenshot you can see all the events related to these 2 jobs, in time period 1st of July – 8th of July. With a click on the certain run of the job instance (for example with a click on the Mailbox Provisioning job that run at 7/2/2015 at 9:39-9:40) you can open further details about this run. In our case we can see that Mailbox provisioning job has processed in this time 98 mailboxes, of which 25 mailboxes added, 71 mailboxes skipped, 2 mailboxes updated etc. red arrows).

If you check the checkbox next to this run of the job, then the right hand table will display all events, all event types related to this run at 9:39-9:40, on 2nd of July.

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Note: The exact details of a job/system running can be opened/collapsed with a right click on the particular session and selecting Expand Details/Collapse Details from the context menu.

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Note: The user can open/close additional details related the selected event with a right mouse click on a particular event and selecting Expand Detail/Collapse Detail from the context menu.

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Now, if you want to visualize only information about Plugin was finished successfully type of event, then set this filter in the Event types checkbox. As result, only this type of event will be displayed in the table of Events.

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With the Export function you can save this report in one of the file types, for example in HTML:

The report will contain all necessary information that might be very useful for a user to identify any failure, or just check the last event(s) of this job at the time period that was filtered out.

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How to manually remove system/job runs and system/job related events from System logs:

  • To delete system/job runs right click on the particular system/job run in column Runs and select Delete from the context menu (Screenshot A).
  • To delete a particular event right click on the particular event and select Delete from the context menu (Screenshot B)


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    Screenshot A: Deleting system/job runs                                         Screenshot B: Deleting system/job events

    What to do if more space is needed on the System logs page? If there are too many events and the user would like to have more space on the System logs page, it’s a good idea to hide the ribbon with clicking on the arrow sign at the upper right corner of the user interface, under the About menu.
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