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contentACCESS Version 5.4

· 7 min read

✨ Highlights

  • New retention change and delete-from-archive capabilities for Teams archives, enabling more flexible lifecycle management of archived data.
  • Extended and more granular filtering options for Teams archive jobs, with separate filters for channels, messages, and files.
  • Improved email archive workflows with support for folder prefixes in mailbox move jobs, simplifying data consolidation scenarios.
  • New system notifications in Central Administration to inform administrators about available contentACCESS updates.
  • The vNext Mail App introduces a redesigned, unified experience with enhanced search, sharing, and data browsing features.

contentACCESS Version 5.3

· 6 min read

✨ Highlights

  • Enhanced Microsoft Teams archiving with full team recovery, point-in-time restore, cloning options, and support for archiving and restoring team tags.
  • Major email archiving improvements, including three-level processing, shortcut deletion, improved privacy controls for private emails, and more flexible roles for shared and delegated mailboxes.
  • New multi-level processing and shortcut deletion flows for file archiving, enabling more flexible and automated file lifecycle management.
  • Security and administration enhancements, such as updated system roles and permissions, improved password handling, stronger encryption, and Java version updates.
  • General performance, stability, and usability improvements across the platform.

contentACCESS Version 5.2

· 5 min read

✨ Highlights

  • Introduces OneDrive archiving with Azure AD–based user and group management, allowing different archiving and retention rules per group or user and a clearer separation of OneDrive and SharePoint content for end users.
  • Extends SharePoint versioning by combining contentACCESS and SharePoint versions, ensuring continuous version history even if SharePoint versioning is enabled later, including support for list item attachments.
  • Enhances recovery functionality with point-in-time restores, recovery to alternative locations, folder-structure-only restores, and a report mode to preview recovery results.
  • Improves email handling by saving downloaded emails using their subject as the file name, making files easier to identify.
  • Adds download notifications for shared documents, informing users when recipients have downloaded shared content.

contentACCESS Version 5.1

· 5 min read

✨ Highlights

  • Extended recovery options for File and Email archives, including point-in-time restores to alternate locations and the ability to recreate folder structures independently of content.
  • In-place archiving for email archive mailboxes, merging primary and archive mailboxes into a single structure for simpler access and administration.
  • Support for archiving and indexing rights-protected emails, with administrator preview available in journal-based archiving scenarios.
  • Enhanced deletion handling that allows removal of items with expired retention even if they are not explicitly marked for deletion.
  • Folder sharing across modules, enabling secure, dynamic sharing of entire folder structures with full support for permissions, retention, and auditing.