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The following list will give a quick overview about the newest improvements that contentACCESS version 6.3 brings to you:
File archive
✓ Archiving azure file shares
File archiving capabilities have been expanded to support Azure file shares. This means administrators can now seamlessly archive files directly from Azure’s cloud storage platform, enhancing flexibility and integration.
Common
✓ Video and audio preview
Gone are the days when you had to retrieve or download media files just to glimpse or hear their content. With this new enhancement, users can effortlessly preview audio and video files directly from the archive. Our optimized streaming technology ensures that you’ll experience minimal buffering and delay, regardless of the file size. This provides a convenient way to get a quick snapshot or review the entire content without the dependency on external media players. The support for a wide range of popular audio and video file formats ensures that you experience both compatibility and convenience seamlessly.
✓ Platform update for web preview
The web preview in contentACCESS has undergone a significant platform update, transitioning to .NET 6. As a result, users can expect a faster and more stable browsing experience. This complete rewrite aims to enhance performance and reliability.
✓ Improved job start and stop experience
The job start and stop mechanisms in contentACCESS have been enhanced, providing clearer status feedback, especially in multi-node environments. Users can now gain a more accurate understanding of job statuses, ensuring a smoother operational experience.
✓ mailApp update
The latest contentACCESS 6.3 release will be bundled with mailApp 6.3. This integrated package ensures seamless functionality and enhanced features. For detailed insights on the updates and improvements in mailApp 6.3, please refer to the mailApp release notes.
✓ Performance and stability fixes
Improvements were made to make the system faster and more stable, so your contentACCESS experience is now even better than it was before.
Update from older versions
✓ Update path: The update is supported by contentACCESS version 3.1 and later. Older versions must first be updated to contentACCESS 3.1 and after that they can be updated to the latest version.
If the update has been done for an earlier version than 3.3, after the update some of the new features must be configured manually.
One of these features is the Task runner, which requires resource storage where the export files will be stored. This storage must be configured in System -> System -> Resource storage settings. This store must be accessible by all contentACCESS nodes inside a cluster, so it is highly recommended to use a network share.
✓ TLS 1.1 and older is disabled: In contentACCESS 6.1 and later the TLS versions older than 1.2 are disabled for security reasons
✓ Modern authentication for Email archive needs more permissions: we have switched from the deprecated Remote PowerShell to a REST based management API, which requires some more permissions on the configured Azure AD application
✓ Search V2 requires .NET Core: In 6.0 we have introduced the next version of search. The new search components targets .NET Core 6, which will be installed automatically by the search server setup.
✓ Teams and Teams chat job filter must be adjusted: In 5.4 we have fully redesigned the filtering capabilities in all Teams and Teams Chat jobs. Your existing Teams and Teams Chat jobs settings must be verified and adjusted after the update from 5.3 and earlier.
✓ Application pool identities changed: To increase the security, all application pools of contentACCESS are using the isolated IIS App Pool Identity. This requires a switch to the server-side rendering in contentACCESS Portal for email archive.
✓ .NET Framework support: From the 5.0 version, the minimum required .NET version for all applications was increased from 4.5.2 to 4.8.
✓ Mail app activation: As a result of redesigning the Mail app activation method in contentACCESS Email Archive, new permissions: “Org Marketplace Apps” and “User Options”, are needed to make the super user work correctly.
✓ Outlook forms: If the update has been done from an earlier version than 3.4, because of some internal changes in the email archive shortcut format, the Outlook forms must be updated to the latest version to maintain the correct functionality. For contentACCESS 3.8, the Outlook forms must be also republished due to the authentication changes.
✓ Remote file archiving: While updating from contentACCESS 3.6, existing remote agent definitions will be not working, since some of the database structures have been moved from the file system archive database to the tenant database.
✓ SQL server support: The minimum required SQL version was increased from MS SQL 2008 to MS SQL 2012.
✓ Redesigned filtering: The old filtering was converted to a new format. Therefore, after the update from 3.7 or earlier, we recommend the checking of all your job filtering settings.
Documentation
Please check the updated documentation and manuals.
contentACCESS and client apps user manuals
