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Nicks -> Build information for GFI MailArchiver 6 (2.Sep.2008 10:29:15 AM)

This topic contains information regarding the changes within the various builds of the GFI MailArchiver 6.
The first entry will contain information about the latest build of GFI MailArchiver, while the posts below contain information regarding previous builds of the product.






Latest Version of GFI MailArchiver:- Version 6.1

Latest build of GFI MailArchiver 6.1: build 20090526





More Information about the latest Service Release can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003599



Nicks -> GFI MailArchiver 6 (build 20080828) (18.Nov.2008 11:55:03 AM)

Features in GFI MailArchiver 6 for Exchange Service (build 20080828) include :
  • Outlook integration – Users can now access their archived messages from Microsoft Outlook using the GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector
  • User mailbox folder synchronisation – Users can browse their messages from both Microsoft Outlook and Web UI using their familiar mailbox folder structure
    Email Hash generation Tool – This tool can be used to update old GFI MailArchiver Archive Stores so that these messages can be matched up with those in the Microsoft Exchange user mailbox by the User Mailbox Folder Synchronisation process.  Note that this tool will only be effective if the messages are still available in Microsoft Exchange
  • New distributed deployment role (User mailbox synchronisation)
  • Newly indexed messages can be retrieved by searching by folder
  • Support to download messages in Outlook (.msg) format
  • Indexes can be paused (Administrators can pause indexing on particular indexes for maintenance purposes)
  • Administrator can select the Indexing Analyser specific to the company locale during installation.

Known Issues:
  • Distributed deployment: Folder synchronisation process fails to synchronise emails if not all GFI MailArchiver roles are installed on servers in the same time zone
  • Microsoft Outlook Connector fails to show recent emails if client machines and server are not in the same time zone
  • Core\Temp folder may contain a lot of ExchangePerflog_* files.  These are created by Exchange MAPI and should be deleted automatically.  Failure of such event can be correct by adding the following key in Core\Data\product.config file:
    <add key=”DeleteExchangePerflog” value=”true” />
    In this case, GFI MailArchiver will delete these files every hour.

Notes:
  • The setting up of GFI MailArchiver 6 to use with the Outlook Connector and User Mailbox folder synchronisation is not straight forward due to constraint imposed by the technology involved.  To make it easy for setting it up, a Quick Start Guide is provided which describes all the steps required in order to successfully install and deploy the product
  • In order to successfully place sent messages in their correct folder, Microsoft Outlook must be configured in non-cached mode as described in the Quick Start Guide
  • Only folder synchronisation from Exchange user mailboxes is supported
  • Email messages are only visible in one folder.


The new GFI MailArchiver 6 (build 20080828) can be downloaded from the following locations:

If installing on x86 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, you need to download the x86 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6.exe

If installing on x64 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, then you need to download the x64 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6_x64.exe

Please note that archive stores created by the GFI MailArchiver 5 RTM and GFI MailArchiver 5 SR1 builds need to be upgraded. To upgrade the existing archive stores open Configuration->”Archive Stores” page, click the "Edit Settings” button next to each archive store and complete the Database Wizard.  Then open Configuration -> "Mail Servers to Archive” and activate archiving for each journaling location.#


More Information about this build can be found at: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003385



Nicks -> GFI MailArchiver 6 SR1 (build 20080924) (18.Nov.2008 12:02:32 PM)

Changes within this release include:

Outlook Connector:
  • FIXED: Under certain condition, Microsoft Outlook crashes while shutting down.
  • FIXED: In some circumstances, Microsoft Outlook crashes if the user closes the download message box while retrieving large emails.  

Mailbox Synchronization:
  • FIXED: A user can save a blank policy when editing an existing folder exclude policy.
  • FIXED: Mailbox synchronization user requires write access to Core\Data folder if not a member of Administrators group.
  • FIXED: Not possible to synchronize folders if the Microsoft Exchange 2007 Client Access Role is configured on a separate machine than the Mailbox Role.
  • FIXED: By default ExchangePerfLog files in Core\Temp are deleted every hour.  

Mailboxes:
  • FIXED: Emails not being displayed in the parent folder of a merged Child/sub-folder.
  • FIXED: Clicking multiple times on the refresh button of the navigation will produce two instances of the mailbox tree.
  • FIXED: Mailbox folder name containing ' ' will cause emails not to be shown and a page error is generated.  

Data Sources Wizard:
  • FIXED: Only one mailbox store is shown at the end of the wizard when having multiple mailbox stores journaling into the same mailbox.
Archive Stores Wizard:
  • FIXED: Under some circumstances the schema upgrade never ends.  This is due to some internal Firebird engine deadlocks.  

Search:
  • FIXED: No results are returned when searching by mailbox that contains '\'.  

Installation:
  • FIXED: Upgrading from GFI MailArchiver 5 Build 20071109 will get stuck in the Auditing database schema Updates.  
Email archiving:
  • FIXED: Some emails fails to download correctly from journal mailbox if Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Windows are Japanese.
  • FIXED: Recipients containing Unicode characters fail to show correctly in the Conversation page if archive store is Firebird.   

Download Locations:

The new GFI MailArchiver 6 (build 20080924) can be downloaded from the following locations.

If installing on x86 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, you need to download the x86 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6.exe

If installing on x64 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, then you need to download the x64 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6_x64.exe

Notes:

  1. Archive stores created by the GFI MailArchiver 5 RTM, GFI MailArchiver 5 SR1 and GFI MailArchiver 6 RTM builds need to be upgraded. To upgrade the existing archive stores open Configuration->”Archive Stores” page, click the "Edit Settings” button next to each archive store and complete the Database Wizard.  Then open Configuration -> "Mail Servers to Archive” and activate archiving for each journaling location.



Nicks -> GFI MailArchiver 6 SR2 (build 20081104) (18.Nov.2008 12:15:27 PM)

Changes within this release include:
  • NEW: Outlook Connector can now show emails for a longer period than just the last year worth of emails. (See KB001934 for more details.)
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector - Outlook crashes on some computers where older version of MAPI is installed.
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector - Microsoft Outlook 2007 random crashes caused by the toolbar.
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector – In Microsoft Outlook 2007 if you close and re-open Outlook the toolbar is not always at the same location.
  • FIXED: Archiving - When display names in the email addresses containing quotes, they are not parsed correctly from the journal and the email does not get assigned proper owners. This results in the email not being visible in the archive by the sender and/or recipient(s).
  • FIXED: Search - Double quotes in generated folder path are incorrectly placed when used in search by folder or subfolder.
  • FIXED: Retention – Some emails will not be deleted from Firebird Archive Stores when the retention period elapses.
Download Locations:

If installing on x86 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, you need to download the x86 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6.exe

If installing on x64 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, then you need to download the x64 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6_x64.exe

Notes:
  • Archive stores created by the GFI MailArchiver 5 RTM, GFI MailArchiver 5 SR1, GFI MailArchiver 6 RTM, and GFI MailArchiver 6 SR1 builds need to be upgraded. To upgrade the existing archive stores perform the following:
    1. Open the GFI MailArchiver Configuration.
    2. Click on the 'Archive Stores' Node.
    3. Click on the 'Edit Settings' icon next to each archive store and complete the Database Wizard to upgrade the archive stores.
    4. One the above is complete, click on the 'Mail Servers to Archive' node in the GFI MailArchiver configuration and activate archiving for each journaling location.



Nicks -> GFI MailArchiver 6 SR3 (build 20090205) (20.Feb.2009 4:57:09 AM)

Changes within this release include:
  • NEW: Added policy settings to centrally configure GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector through Active Directory Group Policies.  The new parameters are Data Path Root, Synchronize Days Span, Messages Batch Size and Connection Timeout (See KBID003490 for further details.)  
  • FIXED: E-mail resolution now escapes special characters used in LDAP queries. Such characters are forward slash, back slash, parentheses and asterisk. This is done to prevent errors when resolving incorrectly composed email addresses, e.g. when display name is enclosed in parentheses (as opposed to quotes) and contains a comma.
  • FIXED: E-mail addresses in Active Directory with extra white spaces are not correctly processed.
  • FIXED: E-mails imported from EEwiz are not synchronized correctly.
  • FIXED: EEwiz - Support for folder paths with . / \ ?
  • FIXED: Folder Synchronization – E-mails addressed to Distribution Lists are not allocated to the proper folder.
  • FIXED: If MArc.Store.exe process is restarted while GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connectors are online, the latter will re-synchronize the whole cache.
  • FIXED: MA2Export tool - Application crashes as soon as it starts to download compressed emails.
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector – When forwarding an e-mail from the GFI MailArchiver Inbox (Outlook Connector) to an external e-mail address, the recipient receives the e-mail without the attachment.
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector – When forwarding an e-mail from the GFI MailArchiver Inbox (Outlook Connector) a Non Delivery Report (NDR) is generated by Microsoft Exchange and the message is not received by the recipient. This issue only happens in a Microsoft Exchange 2007 environment.
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector - Outlook crash when opening certain attachments on Vista machines.
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector – Fixed sort criteria order (A and a are now treated the same).
  • FIXED: Outlook Connector – E-mails in Archive Stores marked as 'Do not allow user browsing' can be accessed from Outlook Connector.
  • FIXED: The main page of the GFI MailArchiver Web UI would not be loaded correctly in Firefox or Safari web browsers. Note that only Microsoft Internet Explorer is officially supported by GFI MailArchiver.
  • FIXED: Using Firebird archive stores, manager access of more than 40 subordinates is not returning all data.
  • FIXED: When a mailbox contains an e-mail with a Message ID greater than 255 characters, the User Mailbox Folder Synchronization may halt and as a result, no other mailboxes will be synchronized.  
  • UPDATE: Added more robustness to the Folder Synchronisation proccess.
Download Locations:

If installing on x86 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, you need to download the x86 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6.exe

If installing on x64 version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, then you need to download the x64 version of GFI MailArchiver 6:
http://software.gfi.com/mailarchiver6_x64.exe

Notes:
  • Archive stores created by the GFI MailArchiver 5 RTM, GFI MailArchiver 5 SR1, GFI MailArchiver 6 RTM, GFI MailArchiver 6 SR1, and GFI MailArchiver 6 SR2 builds need to be upgraded.
    To upgrade the existing archive stores perform the following:
    1. Open the GFI MailArchiver Configuration.
    2. Click on the 'Archive Stores' Node.
    3. Click on the 'Edit Settings' icon next to each archive store and complete the Database Wizard to upgrade the archive stores.
    4. One the above is complete, click on the 'Mail Servers to Archive' node in the GFI MailArchiver configuration and activate archiving for each journaling location.



owenb -> GFI MailArchiver 6.1 build 20090511 (21.May2009 4:32:54 AM)

Changes within this release include:
  • NEW: Administration UI, and tools are localised in Italian, German, and Spanish
  • NEW: Administrator can give access to a single mailbox to a group of people
  • NEW: A tool, BulkSchemaUpgrader, to upgrade all Archive Stores and Auditing schemas from a single interface
  • NEW: Automatic selection of word breaker during indexing.  During indexing, the email being indexed is analysed and the correct language analyzer is used to ensure correct indexing of multilingual email correspondences
  • NEW: Bulk Export - Emails can be exported to PST file
  • NEW: Bulk Export - User is now able to download a whole mailbox
  • NEW: Legal Hold - Administrators can put retention policies on hold so that emails are not deleted
  • NEW: GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector Offline Access
  • NEW: GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector supports Microsoft Outlook Views.  With Views you can look at the same information in a folder by putting it in different arrangements and formats
  • NEW: GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector supports Microsoft Outlook Grouping.  This feature allows the user to group emails under common attribute, for example, Conversation Topic
  • NEW: GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector Synchronisation Window.  The Synchronisation Windows gives the user a view of the Outlook Connector synchronization process status with GFI MailArchiver Server
  • NEW: GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector embedded emails can now be viewed with Outlook (compared to version 6.0 when they were seen as EMLs)
  • NEW: GFI MailArchiver Import Service is now able to process the Archive Stores binary files for convesion from Firebird+NTFS or MSSQL+NTFS to MSSQL
  • NEW: Global user labels - a user can label an email and all email owners will be able to view/edit it
  • NEW: Revision in user exclude/include archiving options - Administrator can choose to archive emails based on strict/loose exclude and strict/loose include options
  • NEW: Summary Page in Configuration sub-tree to show the current GFI MailArchiver configuration at a glance

  • UPDATE: Folder structure of imported emails by PST-Exchange Email Export tool and PST Exporter is retained
  • UPDATE: Getting Started Guide and Manual
  • UPDATE: Indexing is more robust and can handle more edge situations
  • UPDATE: Optimisation and Localisation support in PST-Exchange Email Export tool
  • UPDATE: Optimisation in Folder Structure Retrieval
  • UPDATE: User Interface - Optimisations in Active Directory users and groups retrieval

  • FIXED: Empty "To" or "Cc" fields present in an e-mail's header cause the e-mail not to be archived
  • FIXED: E-mails fail to synchronize when the GFI MailArchiver User Mailbox Synchronization process acts faster than the archiving process. This normally happens when there is a large e-mail being archived
  • FIXED: If an Active Directory user object contains a Display Name with a "," such as “Smith, Alan”, the user name would be displayed incorrectly in the User Audit Trail page if you click the “group by user” icon
  • FIXED: The FROM address in GFI MailArchiver is displayed as “_” when e-mails that do not contain a valid e-mail address in the format user@domain.com are imported from a PST file
  • FIXED: Third party applications that integrate with Active Directory can create additional object classes with the same "mail" address as the user object class. This may lead to Active Directory returning the details of the wrong object class when GFI MailArchiver queries it. This results in e-mails not being assigned to the owner. Only the full access user can view these e-mails
  • FIXED: When a "GFI MailArchiver database" (i.e.: Firebird database) is being used, e-mails fail to synchronize into the correct subfolder of the GFI MailArchiver Mailbox. Subsequently, these e-mails end up in the Inbox folder
  • FIXED: When GFI MailArchiver is installed on an operating system with an international language (such as Turkish), the User Mailbox Syncrhonization process fails to operate.



owenb -> GFI MailArchiver 6.1 SR1 build 20090526 (22.Sep.2009 9:28:05 AM)

Changes within this service release include:
  • FIXED: In certain conditions when a user moves part of the folder structure in Microsoft Exchange Mailbox, this will not be shown correctly in Outlook Connector and Web User Interface.
  • FIXED: Emails deleted from Archive Stores through Retention Policies will not be removed from Outlook Connector.
  • FIXED: Browse Conversations will not show most recent emails on top when using Firebird/Embedded Archive Store.
  • FIXED: Most recent emails will not be shown in Outlook Connector.
  • FIXED: GFI MailArchiver shortcut in Start Menu does not work in Spanish installations.
  • FIXED: In some access control scenarios, some users would not be able to log in and receive error 7102.
  • FIXED: After adding a personal label to an email, it will not be shown in the correct folder in Web User Interface.



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