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Where Do I Install the FSA?

The target location for the FSA depends on which items you want the FSA to scan:

Files saved in local or remote file systems

If you want to a file system, you can install the FSA directly on the file server that you want to scan. Alternatively, you can install the FSA on a network server and run remote scans of multiple file servers.

If you need to scan sensitive folders on a remote server that cannot be accessed by a UNC path, you must install the FSA on a network server and deploy an FSA Remote Connector on the remote server. The FSA Remote Connector runs on the remote server and passes scanned items back to the FSA for policy processing.

We also recommend that you deploy an FSA Remote Connector if your scanning jobs are configured to exclude a large proportion of files. For these scanning jobs, it is more efficient to identify these exclusions on the host server instead of retrieving all files across the network to the FSA for analysis.

Items stored in Microsoft Exchange Public Folders

If you want to scan the text content of items in Exchange Public Folders, or documents attached to these items, install the FSA on a network server that has a local MAPI client. Specifically, install the FSA on a server that has the 'Messaging API and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1' component installed.

This component can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site. Before you install it, ensure that Microsoft Outlook is not also installed; if it is, you must remove it.

Note: We recommend that you do not install the FSA directly on an Exchange server. The FSA is resource-intensive and may affect Exchange performance.

Items hosted on Microsoft SharePoint sites

If you want to scan SharePoint items, either install the FSA directly on the SharePoint server, or deploy an FSA Remote Connector on the SharePoint server.

We recommend that you use an FSA Remote Connector to reduce the processing required on the SharePoint server. The FSA Remote Connector runs on the SharePoint server and passes scanned items back to the FSA for policy processing.

Note: You cannot use the FSA to scan a remote SharePoint server.

Text entries and documents stored in SQL Server or Oracle databases

If you want to scan a database, install the FSA on a network server. (You specify the DBMS connection details when you set up a scanning job.)