contentACCESS documentation – version Orion

  1. Introduction to contentACCESS
    1. Services provided by contentACCESS
    2. Software requirements
      1. contentACCESS prerequisites
  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. Backup Administration for Microsoft 365
      10. contentACCESS Web Services (Proxy)
      11. contentACCESS Portal
      12. Preview service
      13. Central login
      14. Virtual drive
      15. Search service
      16. Search service (V2)
      17. SMTP server
      18. Overview
      19. Installation
      20. Summary
    2. Update of contentACCESS
      1. Managing the index reset or migration
  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. contentACCESS Portal
      1. Logging in to contentACCESS Portal
      2. contentACCESS Portal Automated single sign on
    3. Backup Administration for Microsoft 365
    4. Virtual drive
    5. contentACCESS Web Services (Proxy)
    6. 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 Microsoft 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. SMTP Rules - selective journaling
    21. Sharing job
    22. Sharing settings
    23. How to create/configure databases — All databases
  7. Common features
    1. Databases
    2. Schedules
    3. Retentions
    4. Storages
      1. Amazon S3
      2. Wasabi storage
      3. Google drive storage
      4. Datengut storage
      5. Azure storage
      6. Disk storage
      7. HybridStore
      8. Perceptive storage
      9. Kendox storage
    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 contentACCESS Portal
      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
    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+: contentACCESS MailApp 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 contentACCESS Portal 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. contentACCESS MailApp 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 contentACCESS Portal archive
      3. User permissions to public folders
      4. Public Folder archiving in mixed Exchange environments
    27. Access to private emails and archiving them
    28. SMTP archiving
  13. SharePoint archive plugin
    1. SharePoint Archive settings
    2. SharePoint archive System settings
    3. Site connections in the SharePoint archive
    4. SharePoint archive Provisioning settings
      1. SharePoint provisioning job description
    5. Shortcut configuration in SharePoint
    6. SharePoint archive Address book
    7. SharePoint Archive job configuration
      1. SharePoint archive job description
    8. SharePoint archive retention changer job configuration
    9. SharePoint recovery job configuration
      1. SharePoint recovery job description
    10. Configuration of Delete job in SharePoint archive
      1. SharePoint delete job description
    11. SharePoint Publishing job
      1. SharePoint publishing job description
    12. SharePoint in the contentACCESS Portal archive
  14. OneDrive archive
    1. OneDrive Archive job configuration
    2. OneDrive archive Jobs
  15. 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
  16. Teams archive
    1. Teams archive databases
    2. Teams archive System settings
    3. Teams archive Provisioning settings
    4. Shortcut configuration in Teams archive
    5. Teams archive Address book
      1. Removing objects from Teams archive Address book
    6. Teams archive Licensing
    7. Teams archive Jobs
      1. Teams archive job
      2. Teams compliance archive job
        1. Comparison between the Teams archive and Teams compliance archive jobs
      3. Teams chat archive job
      4. Teams compliance chat archive job
        1. Comparison between the Teams chat archive and Teams chat compliance archive jobs
      5. Teams archive recovery
        1. Teams recovery job description
      6. Configuration of Teams archive retention changer job
      7. Configuration of Teams chat archive retention changer job
      8. Configuration of Delete job in Teams archive
        1. Teams archive delete job description
      9. Configuration of Delete job in Teams chat archive
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. officeGATE
  20. contentACCESS Mobile
  21. Virtual drive configurations
  22. Teams application
  23. Application settings
  24. Terms of use
  25. 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. Prerequisites for Microsoft 365 archiving
    15. PowerShell scripts for setting up Email archive
    16. How to reconfigure your email archive to use modern authentication for PowerShell
    17. Solution for Outlook security patches
    18. Solution for Outlook security patches through GPO
    19. Solution for indexing PDF files
    20. Microsoft 365 SuperUser mailbox configuration
    21. Microsoft 365 journaling
      1. Configuring Microsoft 365 journal forwarding through third-party Exchange Online Protection
    22. Organizational forms
    23. Multifactor authentication
    24. Region setting
    25. contentACCESS MailApp installation issue
    26. Azure app registration for Microsoft 365 archiving
      1. Grant permissions for Email archive
      2. Grant permissions for the OneDrive archive
      3. Grant permissions for the SharePoint archive
      4. Grant permissions for Teams archive
      5. How to request access to Microsoft Protected API
  26. Troubleshooting

1.2.1.contentACCESS prerequisites

Important: As many computers undergo antivirus scans, it is strongly advised to exclude the archive store from the antivirus settings. Otherwise, the scanning process may result in quarantine or removal of files.
If an item has been archived and deleted or quarantined from the store, it becomes unusable, leading to errors upon attempting to open it. That’s why it is recommended to configure exclusion for the contentACCESS archive store.
Learn more about adding an exclusion to Windows Security by referring to this article.

General prerequisites
The following prerequisites are needed for the contentACCESS archive server.

Software requirement

  • 64bit only Windows
  • OS: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022
  • .NET Framework 4.8
  • IIS 7.0,8.0
  • Operating system memory (RAM): 8GB is recommended
  • Free disk space (HDD): 20GB free space is recommended
  • Processor (CPU): 2.4GHz quad core

Server Roles and Features
1) IIS Features

  • Management tools:
    • IIS Management Console

  • Application development features:
    • .NET Extensibility 4.8
    • ASP.NET 4.8
    • ISAPI filters
    • ISAPI extensions

  • HTTP common features:
    • Default document
    • HTTP errors
    • Static Content

  • Performance feature:
    • Static content compression

  • Security:
    • Basic authentication
    • Windows authentication

2) .NET Framework 4.8

  • ASP.NET 4.8
  • WCF Services
    • HTTP activation
    • TCP activation
    • Named pipe activation

3) Database server

Important: Configure SQL Database (you can also create an Automated SQL Database backup if you wish) and storage backups to prevent data loss.

  • Product: MS SQL 2012, MS SQL 2012 R2, MS SQL 2014 SP2, MS SQL 2016, MS SQL 2017, MS SQL 2019, MS SQL 2022
  • Databases: for contentACCESS, for Exchange, SharePoint
  • User: SQL or Windows Authentication access, owner of the contentACCESS databases
Important: It is required to set the SQL Server as ‘Collation – Insensitive’ (the used collation must be CASE-INSENSITIVE (CI)) for the contentACCESS. The recommended collation is: ‘SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS‘.

4) Other requirements

  • Read/write access to the store location for the configured user accounts
  • .NET Framework 4.8 for contentACCESS Outlook add-in
  • Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime 10.0.60724 for contentACCESS Outlook add-in

Search server prerequisites
The following prerequisites are needed if you would like to use the search service.

Software requirement

Preview service prerequisites
The following prerequisites are needed if you would like to use the preview service.

Software requirement

  • .NET 6.0

contentACCESS Exchange Archive server prerequisites
The following prerequisites are needed if you would like to archive emails with the contentACCESS archive server.

Software requirement

  • MS Outlook 2010×64, MS Outlook 2013×64, MS Outlook 2016×64, MS Outlook 2019×64, MS Outlook 2021×64 (Click-to-Run Outlook is not supported!)

Service User
contentACCESS MS Exchange services user rights:

  • Member of the local Administrators group and Distributed COM Users group
  • Read rights over the Configuration Container
  • Assign DCOM Rights on Windows 2012 R2 and above:
    • Distributed COM Users – Local and Remote Access; Launch and Activation

Supported MS Exchange versions

  • MS Exchange 2010 – all service packs, MS Exchange 2013, MS Exchange 2013 SP1
  • Exchange Web Services (EWS)
  • MS Exchange 2013, MS Exchange 2013 SP1, Exchange Online – Microsoft 365
  • MS Exchange 2016, MS Exchange 2019
Note: The EWS user must have at least View-only organization management rights on the Exchange (required by the Email Archive provisioning). Organization management rights are required if the contentACCESS MailApp is also used.

contentACCESS File Archive server prerequisites
The following prerequisites are needed if you would like to archive the file system with the contentACCESS archive server:

Service User
contentACCESS service user rights:

  • Member of the local Administrators group and Distributed COM Users group
  • Impersonation rights

Supported MS Windows server versions

  • MS Windows 2012 R2 and above, all service packs

Other requirements

  • Read/write access to the source file systems for the configured user accounts

contentACCESS Virtual Drive prerequisites

  • MS Windows 2012 R2 and above, all service packs
  • Installed with local administrator account
  • .NET 4.8 Framework

contentACCESS SharePoint Archive server prerequisites
The following prerequisites are needed if you would like to archive SharePoint data with the contentACCESS archive server.

Software requirement

  • SharePoint client-side object model (CSOM redistributable package – included the contentACCESS setup)

Service User
contentACCESS services user rights:

  • Member of the local Administrators group and Distributed COM Users group
  • Impersonation rights

Supported SharePoint versions

  • MS SharePoint 2013/2016, all service packs
  • Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online

Other requirements

  • Read/write access to the source SharePoint sites/site collections for the configured user account
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