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Dealing with backups when you have limited access to the office
Linus Chang CEO of BackupAssist recently posted a great blog post article on 'Backups and preparing for a COVID-19 Lockdown'. In this, he highlights three key problems that Backup Administrators face when considering their backup policies.
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BackupAssist
BackupAssist 10.5.2 is now live.
This is a maintenance release for BackupAssist.
So you are using MailStore to archive all your company email, and to manage mailbox sizes you have chosen to delete all email from users mailboxes older than 1 year. Its all working great, but then you receive a support call from one of your customers who is having issues reading an email that is only in their archive. All they get is a content unavailable error when they select the message in the archive?
For many years now its been common place for users to need access to their business email, calendars and contacts on their mobile devices. Over the years there have been different ways to achieve this, but by far the easiest to setup and the option with best support for access from any connection is ActiveSync.
Anyone who has ever needed to host a secure service on the Internet will be familiar with the complex process of purchasing and registering root trusted SSL certificates and installing onto your servers, as well as the need to keep track of when they expire and need renewing.
Next week James Steel (MailStore) and Neil Perry (Zen Software) will be joining over 200 registered IT Providers at the CompTIA UK Channel Community Meeting in Manchester.
Why not join us?
MailStore version 12.1 is now live and includes some great new features for new users of the software as well as improvements for end users.
End users icons have been modernised to fit in with current versions of Outlook; a new print function added; the ability to export and flatten the folder structure of mailbox data if required; several security improvements and fixes; and overall performance of mailbox archiving has also been increased by up to 20%!
As IT professionals, we have an interest in all things technical at Zen Software so we are always working on fun side projects.