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IT TechTalk at BrainShare 2010

mattclayton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:29:13 -0700

One of the most popular and attended events at BrainShare is back! IT Tech Talk (formerly known as "Meet the Experts") will take place Wednesday night from 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. As always, you'll be able to mingle with our product engineers giving you an opportunity to discuss current and future product features and technologies. Heavy hors d'oeuvres and an open bar will be available.

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Free GroupWise Interactive Quick Start Cards

Messaging Architects — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:37:35 -0700

Go Green with GroupWise Quick Start Cards from Messaging Architects

Fewer printed materials mean a greener environment for all of us. We at Messaging Architects had an overwhemling number of requests for our GroupWise Quick Start cards so, as part of our initiative to reduce our environmental footprint, we're making these handy interactive reference cards available online for free.

Versions Available:

Key GroupWise 8 Topics Include:

Basic Navigation
Managing Contacts
Creating Recurrng Appointments, Tasks, and Notes
Sharing Folders
Granting Proxy Access
… and more!

Download your GroupWise QuickStart Cards today. They're good for your users – and the environment!

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New: Merchandise Transfer Form in the Teaming Library

Teaming_Library — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:33:18 -0700

New Form in the Teaming Library: Merchandise Transfer

The Library is excited to add a form that will not only aid efficiency but add security control to your business process. The Merchandise Transfer form is a simple way to request, record, and respond to transfer of goods inside of your organization.

To Download the form visit the Library by clicking HERE.

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Webinar: Upgrading to GroupWise 8 Tips & Tricks

Messaging Architects — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:07:42 -0700

Start: 1 Dec 2009 - 3:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

GroupWise 8 offers a superior end-user experience and cool, new collaboration features. So, let's get that migration started!

Is your organization planning on upgrading to GW8? Do you have questions or concerns? Do you want to learn some tricks for upgrading and how best to prepare your system? Join this Webinar from Messaging Architects' GroupWise Best Practices Webinar Series. You'll learn about tested best practices and get other valuable tips to consider when you upgrade to GroupWise 8. GroupWise Expert Gregg A. Hinchman will answer specific questions related to your messaging environment and help to ensure your upgrade is as smooth as possible.

Register Today!
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)

Duration: 1 hour

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Hosting — It's an Issue of Trust

Messaging Architects — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:01:21 -0700

Thoughts on Eating Our Own Caviar … and Boomerang Mail Servers

For many IT departments, the decision to go or not go with hosted email hinges on trust. Can the organization trust the provider to give the system the same care an attention that internal IT people would? I didn't want Messaging Architects to offer a hosted email service unless I could be confident the answer would be, "Yes — and more."

The first step in that direction was for Messaging Architects to move our own GroupWise system onto the same virtualized infrastructure in the same datacenter (Rackspace) that we would be providing to our hosted clients. I am pleased to announce that this transition is done and we are running all our systems on a custom-designed, fully virtualized server stack at Rackspace. We learned a ton in the process, and these lessons have been integrated into a smart, simple, and secure migration methodology. The goal is to make it easy for clients to move from a physical onsite infrastructure to a virtualized and hosted one.

Contrary to other hosted email providers, we decided that each client would get their own 100%-dedicated, virtualized server stack. Unlike other hosting providers that mix your email with that of hundreds of other companies on mega servers, we provide each client a fully isolated server. This service is not meant for small companies (we start at 350 users and up) and it is certainly a more expensive approach for us, but we think it is the right way to build a flexible service.

I always had a problem with providers that hold your data hostage and make it difficult or impossible to get it back. We chose to make it very easy to take your servers back in-house. Since each client has their own set of virtual machines, we can return the entire virtual framework — data and apps — back over to your organization in less than 24 hours. Just like you hope your adult children will never move back in, we hope you’ll never want your servers back … but if you do, then we make it both possible and painless.

Our unique approach also means the system can still leverage your organization's rich, on-site infrastructure such as eDirectory and Identity Manager (enabling provisioning, single sign-on, etc.). There's also transparent integration with enterprise apps that either remain onsite (CRM, HR) or might be hosted elsewhere (Salesforce). None of this is possible with other hosted offerings.

Of course, with Rackspace as a partner, we have access to world-class, 24 x 7 protection against power failure and equipment malfunction, as well as built-in redundancies on servers and network connectivity. Our custom engineering is designed to spread the virtual stack across multiple physical servers, each with point-in-time backup and restore. All data transmissions are over secure HTTPS connections.

We are accepting our first round of clients now, and we will go big in early 2010. The service includes GroupWise 8 and the combination of M+Archive and M+Guardian. The result is a risk-free, zero-effort email infrastructure that can grow with your organization — and perhaps even move back in one day ;-).

— Frederic Bourget, Messaging Architects VP of Technology & Solutions

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Webinar: GWAVA Reload 3.1 - Save Time with Reload

GWAVAComm — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:05:41 -0700

Start: 10 Dec 2009 - 3:00pm

End: 10 Dec 2009 - 4:00pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

GWAVA is pleased to invite you to a special 1 hour webinar on December 10th, 2009 at 3pm EST. Stephen Cohen will demonstrate step-by-step how the new migration features in Reload can save you time.

If you are thinking of migrating your GroupWise post office to Linux, you don't want to miss this free webinar!

Presenter: Stephen Cohen, GWAVA Systems Engineer

To sign up, click HERE.

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GWAVACon 2010 Call for Speakers

GWAVAComm — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:04 -0700

GWAVACon 2010 is shaping up to be an exciting event with lots of interesting technical sessions and keynotes. There are still a few session slots available. Let us know if you would like to speak or if you know of a session topic or speaker that would interest GWAVACon attendees.

Contact gregj@gwava.com if you would like to participate.

GWAVACon is the Novell GroupWise technology conference where you can enjoy face-to-face interaction with the top experts on GroupWise and other Novell technology. GWAVACon will be held January 24-26, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

For more information on GWAVACon or to register, go to www.gwavacon.com.

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Omni Adds Web-based Management for M+Guardian and M+Archive to eControl

Omni-TS — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:58:54 -0700

Start: 25 Nov 2009 - 3:30pm

Timezone: US/Eastern

Messaging Architects customers can now use eControl to quickly and easily delegate M+Guardian and M+Archive management, provisioning and auditing tasks to non-technical users. No administrator rights required. Designed for non-technical front-line staff, all actions are written to an audit file. eControl also provides support for eDirectory, GroupWise, ZENworks, Microsoft Terminal Server, Active Directory and Exchange management from a single web interface.

When: Wednesday, November 25th, 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time (17:00 UTC)

What You Will Learn:

How to replace ConsoleOne, iManager, MMC and Task Pads with a much simpler web application that was designed with the non-technical end-user in mind.

How to quickly and easily delegate routine M+Guardian and M+Archive management and auditing tasks to non-technical users in your environment (e.g., service desk staff, email compliance administrators, HR staff, security department, line managers and junior administrators).

How to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your user and email lifecycle management processes.

How to free up your senior IT staff from managing routine, yet time-consuming M+ Guardian, M+Archive tasks.

How to decentralize the administration of eDirectory, GroupWise, Active Directory, Exchange, ZENworks, Microsoft Terminal Server, M+Guardian and M+Archive to regional offices without losing any control.

Contact Omni at sales@omni-ts.com or +1.780.423.4200 for more information on eControl.

For more information on the new M+Guardian and M+Archive modules for eControl, contact Messaging Architects at sales@messagingarchitects.com or 1-514-392-9220.

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Deep Dive at BrainShare 2010

mattclayton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:22:03 -0700

This year Novell is enhancing and expanding two of the most popular attractions at BrainShare - the Installation and Migration Depot and Novell Advanced Technical Training (ATT). Diving Deep is all about helping you take advantage of more in-depth, hands-on technical training opportunities that can have an immediate impact on how you do your job. Swim on over to this new Connection Magazine article to read more: http://bit.ly/bsdeepdive

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Session Voting Begins Today!

mattclayton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:15:58 -0700

The time has come to begin voting on the session proposals for BrainShare 2010 in Salt Lake City. Voting will be open from now until December 4th, 2009 (5:00 PM MST). Please take the time to review the proposed sessions and vote for the sessions you believe will be of most value to you and the other conference attendees.

To access session voting go to http://bit.ly/bssessionvoting and create an account, if you do not already have one created. Please take the time to vote on each session as your votes will help to determine the sessions that will be presented at BrainShare 2010.

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