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contentACCESS Version 7.2

· 7 min read

✨ Highlights

  • A completely redesigned sign-in experience delivers faster access, modern design, and greater flexibility for authentication options.
  • Modern SharePoint shortcuts bring near-native Microsoft 365 file handling, faster restores, and dramatically smaller shortcut files.
  • System Insights extended with SMTP telemetry and aggregated views, giving administrators clearer operational visibility at a glance.
  • Improved SharePoint Online performance with a fully rewritten connector for faster and more robust archiving.
  • ActiveX-free Outlook forms option to deploy contentACCESS Outlook forms without ActiveX components to align with modern security policies.

contentACCESS Version 7.1 SP1

· 3 min read

✨ Highlights

  • Strengthened installation and setup reliability with smarter database handling and improved service account configuration.
  • Enhanced security by preventing password exposure in logs and restoring flexible link security settings.
  • Expanded reporting capabilities in Email Archive to provide deeper mailbox growth insights.
  • Optimized SharePoint provisioning performance and improved on-premises connectivity options.
  • Extended the VirtualDrive tester with new configuration capabilities.

contentACCESS Version 7.1

· 8 min read

✨ Highlights

  • System Insights for real-time monitoring: A new, integrated dashboard provides instant visibility into system health, performance, storage activity, and license usage, replacing periodic telemetry with always up-to-date analytics.
  • AI-powered, context-aware help: Intelligent assistance is now available directly in the Administration UI, offering relevant, documentation-based answers that adapt to your current screen and remember conversation context.
  • Amazon S3 Object Lock support: Enable immutable storage with Governance mode to protect backup and archive data against deletion or tampering while remaining compliant with regulatory requirements.
  • Modernized platform support: contentACCESS 7.1 adds verified support for Windows Server 2025 and introduces Serilog for structured, more actionable logging and diagnostics.
  • Overall performance and stability improvements: Under-the-hood optimizations deliver a faster, smoother, and more reliable experience across backup, archiving, and administration tasks.

contentACCESS Version 7.0 SP1

· 3 min read

✨ Highlights

  • Added BINARY-MIME (chunking) support to the contentACCESS SMTP server to improve email transmission efficiency.
  • Introduced the option to remove remote file archive agents from Central Administration.
  • Improved stability of email archiving and provisioning, including better handling of missing Internet Message IDs and more reliable group membership management.
  • Enhanced hybrid M365 Exchange testing with a dedicated “Email address to test” field to reduce mailbox association errors.