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The Corsa Document Server has been completely renewed this release. The "Corsa DS 7.2.msi" no longer exists.

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The renewed (redesigned) Corsa Document Server offers digital document storage based on modern technology, a new architecture, performance and scalability. These are the starting points for the new Document Server (DS) platform. It enables us to meet the requirements of today and tomorrow.

New architecture

First of all, a new architecture. The storage server (Corsa Document Storage) and the renditions orchestration component (Corsa Renditions Orchestrator) have been split up. Each component focuses on its own speciality.

State of art technology

Secondly modern technology: Corsa Document Storage is being developed in .NET and the Corsa Renditions Orchestrator on the basis of the Message Centre (BCE).

Scalability & performance

Fast storage and retrieval of documents and fast availability of renditions.

Management

The configuration of the storage and renditions is moved to MyCorsa NxT. Via the MyCorsa NxT web interface, management can be done from any authorized workstation.

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Technically, the Document Server consists of three components:

1.Corsa Document Storage (CDS)
 
A service through a https website (port 30001) in IIS for creating, reading, updating and deleting (CRUD) documents on a file storage. A identity server (such as Windows ADFS) is needed for application authentication. Every component that communicates with the CDS has to do this through the identity server.
 
The installation takes place by installing the setup 'CorsaDocumentStorageSetup.exe'. This installs .NET Core DLL files which are used self-contained and the Document Storage MSI. During the installation, a website called 'CorsaDocumentStorage' is created in IIS. This website should be configured to https. See the Corsa Document Server 2021 installation manual for more information.
 

2.Corsa Renditions Orchestrator (CRO)
 
BCT BerichtenCentrale (BCE / Apache ServiceMix) 3.5 in combination with the CRO adapter for orchestrating the renditions (conversions).
 
The installation takes place by installing the BCT Message Central (BCE) 3.5 including the CRO adapter. See the Corsa Document Server 2021 installation manual for more information.
 

3.Corsa Rendition Server (CRS)
 
Service for conversion (rendition) of documents with the help of underlying engines Neevia Document Converter Pro and ABBYY FineReader Engine 11. The ABBYY software is automatically installed by the IDT RS software. Neevia needs to be present on the same server as IDT RS. This is because the IDT RS software addresses the Neevia API so it must be on the same machine.
 
The installation takes place by 'deploying' various IDT RS setups after which ABBYY is activated. See the Corsa Document Server 2021 installation manual for more information.

Finally, an Identity Server is required (from a security point of view) for these components to work. An example of this is ADFS. Please note that in the case of ADFS, the ADFS server must be equipped with at least Windows Server 2016. This is because the used (and so-called) 'OAuth2 Client Credentials Grant' is not supported in Windows Server 2012. Please refer to the Corsa Document Server 2021 installation manual for more information.

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As described in the General section, for the Corsa 2021 release there are a number of new Corsa parameters (crosvrurl, idcsvrurl, strsvrurl, passvrurl).

Don't forget the dsdbid parameter. The parameters dshost and dsport are not needed anymore in this release and are removed.

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Migration of digital documents to the new Document Server (DS):

The storage structure of DS documents on the file system has remained the same in the Corsa Document Server 2021. This means there is no need to convert to a new storage structure.

Migration of (physical / logical) devices to the new Document Server (DS):

For the migration of the configuration of the various physical and logical devices, a migration plan exists in the Corsa Document Server 2021 installation manual.

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The dtSearchcomponent has been replaced by Apache Solr as of this release. This means that BCT Message Central (BCE) 3.5 + Apache Solr are installed by default. The versions of these components are the same as those used for Application Search.
If this functionality is used and Application Search for MyCorsa NxT is not, the Corsa module 'Application Search' should not be turned on either.

The 'Document text' search field in Corsa now searches in Solr instead of in dtSearch.

(Re)indexing applies only to the Corsa object types S (Document item), A (Agenda item) and V (Real estate). The same Corsa programmes can be used for this as for Application Search:

•solr/d-fullsync.r

•solr/d-fillqueue.r (queue filling by object type)

More information about this search functionality can be found on BCT's Service Portal (https://support.bctsoftware.com/).