Retain provides organizations with legal compliance and litigation protection. It frees up disk space on messaging systems. It enhances message-data management. It allows you to archive and store messages and data from messaging systems and phones. Retain allows the administrators to manage archived messages, review archive status and activity, and generate reports on archived messages and data. For a detailed overview of Retain, see OpenText Retain 23.2: How Retain Works.
This section summarizes the new features and enhancements in Retain 23.2 release.
Retain now provides you an option to run a job immediately. For more information, see the Jobs section in the OpenText Retain 23.2: Configuration and Administration guide and Worker Connection section in the OpenText Retain 23.2: Archiving Guide guide.
Retain now supports a secured connection between Retain and all the supported database types (MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MSSQL). For more information, see Securing the Database Connection section in the OpenText Retain 23.2: Planning and Running the Retain Server Configuration Wizard in the OpenText Retain 23.2: Installation and Upgrade guide.
The Digital Certificate tab is renamed as SSL Certificate Management.
Path: Retain Server Manager > Configuration > Server Configuration > SSL Certificates Management
You can now manage the self-signed certificates to be trusted in Retain. Also, an option to enable HTTPS validation is provided. For more information, see SSL Certificates Management Tab in the OpenText Retain 23.2: Configuration and Administration guide.
In the Export Audit Table report, you now have a Hide Message Subject checkbox that allows you to hide or unhide the message subject in the report.
For planning and installation instructions, see the OpenText Retain 23.2: Installation and Upgrade guide.
The supported upgrade path is from Retain version 4.11 or 4.11.0.1 to Retain version 23.2. If you are running a version earlier than 4.11, follow the upgrade paths that are documented in Upgrading to Retain 23.2
in the OpenText Retain 23.2: Installation and Upgrade guide.
NOTE:Before the upgrade, ensure Solr8 is the Active Index Engine and Solr 7 cleanup is performed.
The following are the various issues reported by Retain customers and discovered in internal testing.
Table 1 Fixed in Retain 23.2
Issue Number |
Description |
---|---|
513025 |
Unable to archive GW Messenger data - GW Messenger Development License issue |
147031 |
The Retain plugin in Outlook not working as expected. |
554006 |
Imminent Deprecation of Basic Authentication by Microsoft which Retain uses |
588007 |
Jobs are not archiving on configuring GraphAPI |
587018 |
Login Error - Retain Worker - Could not communicate with Retain Server to authenticate. |
600081 |
Unable to archive on distribution list group |
604006 |
Not all O365 mailboxes are archived after changing to modern authentication. |
613135 |
Solr8 conversion overwhelming log files |
595043 |
Unable to export Metadata. |
606117 |
Solr8 Index Configuration Issue java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: |
572028 |
Retain Crashes - System halts and becomes unresponsive |
582163 |
Retain archiving to incorrect mailbox after switch from Basic Authentication to Modern Authentication |
603045 |
Retain is not reacting to IIS Server restart |
612172 |
O365 users with the Business Standard license are not added to the Retain address book |
613126 |
Unable to connect to Office 365 |
625022 |
Building Solr8 Indexing is slow and no f_indexed = 3 items |
154002 |
PST Export Files Disappear From the Retain UI |
535041 |
Email search not showing subject of email. Just reference ID |
553078 |
'Retain - cannot open job management page |
592002 |
Retain Documentation Azure Application Redirection Url Missing path |
616159 |
"Solr Upgrade , Update Notification always present" |
621177 |
SVC: Retain Install fails with OpenJDK checksum check |
625056 |
Admin login is delayed by indexed messages status |
626216 |
After upgrade to Retain 4.11 and Solr8 Basic search is slow or fails |
634067 |
Worker Jobs Run Forever |
451195 |
Items can not be archived / some mailboxes stuck and slow down job |
472033 |
Retain tries to connect to 151.139.128.14 |
477092 |
"Oracle ""LONG LIVED Transactions"" messages resulting in Retain Server hang" |
527094 |
SMTP Forward intermittent |
565151 |
"Server Error while archiving user mailbox ""Unable to find root folder""" |
569094 |
"Increasing Errors ""[no body} Exception occurred"" during collections" |
581153 |
Discussion about exporting messages back in to Exchange |
613170 |
Retain Archiving is not completing since upgrade to 4.11 |
620072 |
Jobs fail with Distribution List after upgrade to 4.11 |
620101 |
'Retain PST exports omits data with non-standard recipient email address' |
632092 |
After upgrade to Retain 4.11 and Solr8 Basic search is slow or fails |
The following are known issues in the Retain 23.2 release.
The Retain Plugin for GroupWise WebAccess does not work in GroupWise version 18.3 and later.
OpenText has received unverified reports that SMS/MMS messages from new Android devices that have RCS enabled might not archive. If you experience the problem in archiving, contact Retain Support.
For specific product issues, contact OpenText Support.
Additional technical information or advice is available from:
Product documentation, Knowledge Base articles, and videos: OpenText Support
The OpenText Community pages: OpenText Community
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