Element On-Premise Documentation
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Introduction to Element Server Suite
What is Element Server Suite? Element Server Suite provides an enterprise-grade secure communicat...
Kubernetes Installations
Overview Our Installer can handle the installation of Element Enterprise into your existing produ...
Kubernetes Installations - Quick Start
For testing and evaluation purposes - Element cannot guarantee production readiness with these sa...
Single Node Installations
Installing a Standalone Server Overview Our installer can handle the installation of environments...
Single Node Installs: Storage and Backup Guidelines
General storage recommentations for single-node instances /data is where the standalone deploym...
Configuring Element Desktop
Element Desktop is a Matrix client for desktop platforms with Element Web at its core. You can do...
Using the Installer in an Air-Gapped Environment
Defining Air-Gapped Environments An air-gapped environment is any environment in which the runnin...
Troubleshooting
Introduction to Troubleshooting Troubleshooting the Element Installer comes down to knowing a lit...
Setting up Permalinks With the Installer
Element Extra Configurations Please go to the "Element Web" page of the installer, click on "A...
Setting Up Well Known Delegation
Well Known Delegation Configuration From the Installer's Integrations page, click "Install" under...
Setting up Delegated Authentication With the Installer
Delegated Authentication At present, we support delegating the authentication of users to the fol...
Integrations and Add-Ons
Setting Up Jitsi and TURN With the Installer
Configure the Installer to install Jitsi and TURN Prerequisites Firewall You will have to open th...
Setting up Group Sync with the Installer
What is Group Sync? Group Sync allows you to use the ACLs from your identity infrastructure in or...
Setting up GitLab, GitHub, JIRA and Webhooks Integrations With the Installer
In Element Server Suite, our GitLab, GitHub, and JIRA extensions are provided by the hookshot pac...
Setting up Adminbot and Auditbot
Overview Adminbot allows for an Element Administrator to become admin in any existing room or spa...
Setting Up Hydrogen
Configuring Hydrogen From the Installer's Integrations page, click "Install" under "Hydrogen". Fo...
Setting up On-Premise Metrics
Setting up VictoriaMetrics and Grafana From the Installer's Integrations page, click "Install" un...
Setting Up the Telegram Bridge
Configuring Telegram bridge On Telegram platform Login to my.telegram.org to get a telegram app ...
Setting Up the Teams Bridge
Configuring Teams Bridge Register with Microsoft Azure You will first need to generate an "Applic...
Setting Up the IRC Bridge
Matrix IRC Bridge The Matrix IRC Bridge is an IRC bridge for Matrix that will pass all IRC messag...
Setting Up the SIP Bridge
Configuring SIP bridge Basic config From the Installer's Integrations page, click "Install" under...
Setting Up the XMPP Bridge
Configuring the XMPP Bridge The XMPP bridge relies on the xmpp "component" feature. It is an equi...
Setting up Location Sharing
Overview The ability to send a location share, whether static or live, is available without any a...
Removing Legacy Integrations
Today, if you remove a Yaml integration's config, its components will not be removed from the clu...
Setting up Sliding Sync
Introduction to Sliding Sync Sliding Sync is a backend component required by the Element X client...
Setting up Element Call
Introduction Element Call is Element's next generation of video calling, set to replace Jitsi in ...
Setting Up the Skype for Business Bridge
Configuring the Skype for Business Bridge Domains and certificates The first step in preparing a ...
Migration from self-hosted to ESS On-Premise
Notes Migrate from self hosted to Element Starter / ESS On-Premise Preparation This section outli...
Configuring Synapse workers
From the Installer's Synapse page, scroll down to Synapse workers view. Click on Add Workers Yo...
Setting up Delegated Authentication with LDAP on Windows AD
In the installer, set the following fields: Base: the distinguished name of the root level Org ...
Setting up Delegated Authentication with OpenID on Microsoft Azure
Before setting up the installer, you have to configure Microsoft Azure Active Directory. Set up M...
Setting up Delegated Authentication with OpenID on Microsoft AD FS
Install Microsoft AD FS Before starting the installation, make sure: your Windows computer name...
Getting Started with the Enterprise Helm Charts
Introduction This document will walk you through how to get started with our Element Server Suite...
Automating ESS Deployment
The .element-enterprise-server Directory When you first run the installer binary, it will create ...
Kubernetes : namespace-scoped deployments
Prepare the cluster - Admin side Installing the Helm Chart Repositories The first step is to star...
Customize containers ran by ESS
Issue In some deployments, you might want to customize the containers, because you want to add c...
Support Policies
Appendices
Appendix A: Preparing Element Server Suite PoC
Please reach out our Element Sales Team if you want to run a Proof of Concept for Element Server ...
How to run a Webserver on Standalone Deployments
This guide is does not come with support by Element. It is not part of the Element Server Suite (...
Notifications, MDM & Push Gateway
The stock Android and iOS Apps will use an Element owned Push Gateway to send Notification via th...
Verifying ESS releases against Cosign
Cosign ESS Verification Key ESS does not use Cosign transaction log to be able to support airgapp...
ESS CRDs support in ArgoCD
ArgoCD can support getting the ESS CRDs Status as resource health using Custom Health Checks You ...
Archived Documentation Repository
Documentation Covering Installer 2023-02.02 CLI Only.
element-on-premise-documentation (2).pdf
Documentation Covering Installers From 2022.10.01 to 2023.02.01
element-on-premise-documentation.pdf
Documentation Covering Installers From 2022.07.03 to 2022.09.05
element-on-premise-documentation-0703-0905.pdf
Documentation covering v1 and installers prior to 2022-07.03
element-on-premise-documentation-july28-2022.pdf
Documentation Covering Installers from 2023-03.01 to 2023-05.04
element-on-premise-documentation.pdf
ESS Sizing
The values provided below are indicative and might vary a lot depending on your setup, the volume...