Enterprise Messaging and Email Management

Download Our Free Spring 2012 Buyers/Planning Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:48:00 +0000

May 1, 2012: Fleximation Systems Inc. releases it's Spring 2012 Buyers/Planning Guide.

We specialize in providing best of breed 3rd party software utilities, which leverage and enhance your email (Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino) and SharePoint environments.

Our spring product solutions guide focuses on some prime areas and they include:

PST Management and Elimination
Exchange 2010 Migration Solutions
Outlook/Exchange Conference Room Scheduling
Digital Sign-age
and more.....

To download our Spring 2012 Catalogue please click here Spring Product Catalogue

Digital Sign Service - Connecting Your Digital Signs with Exchange and Outlook®

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:31:00 +0000

Digital Sign Service is digital meeting room sign software for Outlook and Exchange. It provides you with the opportunity to seamlessly integrate your digital sign solution with the Microsoft platform. You can book a meeting room in Outlook® and it will be displayed on the digital sign outside the appropriate meeting room automatically. It's that easy! Digital Sign Service provides organizations with an:

Easy installation and out-of-the-box solution
Intuitive and well designed template for meetings
Displays current and next meetings
Relies on our Microsoft ISV certified event driven software

For more information about Digital Sign Service or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the link below: http://www.flexnet.com/Digital_Meeting_Room_Signage/Outlook_Digital_Signage_Software.htm

VitalSigns Now Monitors Lotus Traveler Servers

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:32:00 +0000

VitalSigns is the best Lotus Traveler Server Monitoring Tool Available!
Lotus Traveler is gaining significant popularity within organizations, it is becoming a mission crucial app. Administrators need a Traveler server monitoring utility to support their environment.

Traveler Users

Administrators are likely responsible for multiple Traveler servers and each server maintains a list of users with a variety of actions that can be performed, such as, wipe device, deny access, approve, etc. When urgent requests comes in to either wipe a device or cancel a wipe request, it only works if the device hasn't already been wiped. So, finding any user across multiple servers is not something that can happen instantly. In most cases, users connect to whatever Traveler server they want to, regardless of what server they are "supposed" to use.
VitalSigns solves this problem by consolidating all Traveler users into a single database, which can be sorted and searched. All the usual Traveler actions, such as Wipe Device and Cancel Wipe Request are at your fingertips.

For more information about VitalSigns or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the link below.

http://www.flexnet.com/Traveler_Server_Monitoring/Traveler-Monitoring.htm

Mail Attender-A Complimentary Tool for Discovery Attender

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:37:00 +0000

Mail Attender offers email administrators a variety of email management options from, outlook pst management to pst discovery or mailbox discovery, pst to cloud migration, email content management for Exchange and now support Exchange 2010 Archives. It automatically manages the content of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, provides email discovery to mailboxes, Outlook Personal Storage Folders (PST’s) and public folders. For example, in order to reduce storage requirements or limit legal liability, many organizations create email retention policies, only to find that enforcement is either too labor intensive or too reliant on user diligence. Mail Attender allows administrators to create custom retention policies and automatically enforce them independent of user interaction all through a central console.

Additionally, through it's rules based wizard, administrators can develop custom rules which will give them the ability to detect and copy to a specific location, users PST's (network or local), so that they can easily migrate this data to Exchange 2010 archives or a cloud based email or email archiving solution or Google Apps.

Discovery Attender offers the following e-Discovery capabilities:

detailed PST search and Exchange email search with multiple keywords or keyword phrases
search PST files for specific keywords and email address's
performs PST search's for certain keywords during a specific time or date range
PST discovery and email discovery within a network file share
eliminate PST files of specific content
PST Discovery for internal and external email compliance purposes
complies with SEC and NASD email regulations for retention and e-discovery
provides email litigation and PST search support during HR inquiries or legal disputes
provide legal council with litigation support for internal or client emails and PSTs
email legal discovery and e-discovery assistance
offers advanced results filter and deduplication
performs Outlook PST search and PST discovery
eliminates PST files
SharePoint File Searching
search Archive Attender's Email Archive Repository

Click here to see a uTube video of Mail Attender - A Complimentary Tool for Discovery Attender

Read about Mail Attender's PST Search Capabilities click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Mail_Attender/Mail_Attender.htm

Read about Discovery Attender's PST Search Capabilities click on the url below:http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Discovery/Email-Discovery-Attender.htm

Comparing Mail Attender and PST Capture

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:15:00 +0000

Email management is a hot topic these days and by now you probably know that Microsoft has released their PST Capture. It is a free utility for importing PST data into Exchange 2010. Since several analysts have already reviewed the utility (Have a look at Tony Redmond’s piece). Below are highlights of the advantages of using Mail Attender for your PST import project.

PST Capture is a great option for simple PST migration projects. It installs quickly, is easy to use and it’s free! Migration projects are rarely simple and they tend to raise all sorts of difficult questions such as; “who owns the data being imported,” “how much of the information should be imported” or “how do I avoid importing the same message multiple times”. Sherpa’s Mail Attender product is helpful for administrators who must undertake a PST migration project with this type of complexity. Here is a quick recap of some areas where Mail Attender can extend the type of basic data import facilities offered by PST Capture:

• Determining PST ownership – if the Mail Attender scan process cannot uniquely identify a valid Active Directory owner for the PST (based on an analysis of the message data) it will store a table of the top five likely owners for the administrator to review

• Selectively importing data – for scenarios where more control is required over the import, Mail Attender can filter messages based on criteria. For example, maybe any item over three years old should be imported to the Online Archive and any item newer should be imported to the mailbox.

• Broader version support – Mail Attender works with Exchange 2003, 2007 or 2010 and installs on either 32 or 64 bit operating systems

• Data Analysis – if you need to obtain a break down of PST data (for example by age or type) Mail Attender can generate ad-hoc reports or on-demand statistics

• De-duplicating data - this feature (available soon) will de-duplicate the messages being imported from multiple PST files into the same target repository (mailbox or Online Archive)

Not every situation calls for a set of import options that are this extensive, but it is nice to know that they are available when the project requires more finesse. A complete comparison between Mail Attender and PST Capture is available on our web site. If you have specific questions about how Mail Attender could help with your migration project please contact any of our sales representatives or our customer support team, we will be happy to assist you.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Mail_Attender/Mail_Attender.htm

Enow Announces MailScape 4.6

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Mailscape 4.6 includes several new enhancements to help messaging administrators support their ever increasing mobile users. Mailscape already contained over 200 exchange reports and comprehensive monitoring features. The 4.6 release adds a new Blackberry end to end test to help BlackBerry administrators isolate where an issue is occurring so they can quickly resolve the issue. The end to end test can also help verify if a particular wireless carrier is having an outage. This release also includes new ActiveSync reports to make managing Apple iPhones, iPads, and DROID devices easier. Other highlights include server patch level reporting, mailbox attachment and new public folder reports and more.....

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Exchange_Management_and_Monitoring/Exchange_Management.htm

Is PST file management a problem? How do I manage and eliminate all of our PST files on our Network?

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:29:00 +0000

PST File Management has long been a problem for most organizations. Now with increased e-discovery requests, and the desire to control the creation and storage locations of PST's, organizations are purchasing 3rd party utilities to help their email administrators with PST file management. For example, these utilities offer PST search and detection capabilities to locate any PST on their network or local workstations. They can also delete content within PST's and delete PST's after the pst data has been removed or archived.

For further information or to download a trial version of our PST File Management software solutions, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/PST_File_Management.htm

Add-on Mail's PSTStation v3.5 Can Now Archive PST's to Exchange 2010 Archive

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:31:00 +0000

PSTStation Corporate The best solution to search & locate PST files, archive them into Exchange 2010.

New features in V3.5 Archive your PST files Into exchange 2010

PSTStation Corporate 3.5 helps organizations migrate their PSTfiles into Exchange 2010 mailboxes and provides administrators all the necessary features in one tool:

- Locate & identify PST files across corporate networks

- Select content and archive each user Exchange mailbox

- Post-actions on PST files like disconnection or marking as Read-Only

What’s new in V3.5? Optimize the backup of your PST files with PSTStation corporate 3.5

Introducing two very useful enhancements to the backup feature.

First, you can activate compression to speed up the transfer between client and server. You will reduce up to 50% of the data volume by activating this new feature and reduce the overall duration of your backup.

Second, you can break large PST files in smaller chunks when you back them up for the first time, it. This will prevent timeout disconnection and allow more concurrent users to be backed up at the same time.

Added benefits: Avoid timeout when backing up very large PST files.

Know what is stored in your PST files

- Extract a lot of information from scanning your PST files.

- Get global findings on emails and non-emails items stored in your PST files : how many messages are stored, what is the volume of attachments, the distribution of the emails by date…

Added benefits: Custom distribution of emails by date and type.
Archiving process can be run 24/7, even when Outlook is running and it supports low bandwidth networks.

Added benefits:

- Content filtering based on date range and other criteria

- No scripting required

- Run while Outlook is open

To download a trial version of Archive Attender, please click on the link below:
http://www.flexnet.com/PSTBackup/PSTDetection.htm

Archive Attender V4.0 is in Beta.

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:59:00 +0000

In Archive Attender version 4, Sherpa has introduced a new application architecture that has been designed to strengthen the stability and scalability of the product. In previous versions of Archive Attender all processing was managed by a single component, the Archive Attender for Exchange service. While this approach made the product easy to deploy, it also became a bottleneck as the number of users, amount of archived data and volume of retrieval requests grew. Archive Attender 4 solves this problem with an innovative new modular approach to the application architecture.

The new designed product architecture splits the management of various tasks into multiple service components (as depicted in the following diagram) to alleviate the bottleneck created by a single service architecture.

To review a detailed listing of " What's New " in V4.0 of Archive Attender, please click on the link below.

http://www.flexnet.com/Archive_Attender/AAE_4_WhatsNew.pdf

To download a trial version of Archive Attender, please click on the link below:http://www.flexnet.com/Archive_Attender/Archive-Attender-2.htm#7

AD Monitoring and Reporting Made Easy

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:00:00 +0000

AD monitoring and reporting tools are often very hard to find. Compass is a new AD monitoring and reporting utility that combines all the key elements for Active Directory monitoring and reporting and delivers it into a single easy to use dashboard. It was developed by Active Directory Architects with real world experience managing and troubleshooting numerous enterprise environments.

Key benefits:

Easy to install and affordable

Compass is a cost effective solution which installs in minutes and starts reporting immediately

Improve system uptime.

Real-time monitoring all of key components of Active Directory including domain controller, replication, DNS and other critical services.
Simplify troubleshooting AD

Compass provides an intuitive and easy to use dashboard that displays all vital components of Active Directory which enables administrator to quickly identify issues before they become outages.

Identify and resolve DNS issues

Active Directory depends on a functioning and correctly configured DNS. Compass automatically tests these components and helps you ensure that your DNS setup is correct.

Improve Security

Compass provides over 30 reports that enable Administrators to quickly audit AD resources to ensure that unnecessary IT staff do not have inappropriate rights. Replication monitoring helps detects if there is an issue stopping from security changes going into affect.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/AD_Reporting_and_Monitoring/AD_Reporting.htm

5 Key Areas of Lotus Domino Server Health

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:35:00 +0000

Overall Health and Responsiveness

VitalSigns independently verifies that Domino servers will respond to Notes client requests– the most important thing that end users care about– because it is a Notes client. It tracks response time and warns you when the server is getting sluggish.VitalSigns automatically watches over key health statistics such as Server.Availability, Mem.Availability and Transaction Logging.

Mail Health

VitalSigns detects Pending and Dead Mail pileups by directly querying the mail.box files to absolutely make sure that the mail is flowing. You can even send test mail messages between servers for delivery metrics.

VitalSigns can also automatically delete dead mail, if desired.

IBM recommends that administrators periodically take the value of (Mail.Mailbox.AccessConflicts / Mail.Mailbox.Accesses) x 100 to determine if an additional mail.box file is needed. Who has time for this? VitalSigns does it automatically!

VitalSigns can produce a graph showing the biggest mail files across your enterprise or on specific servers.

Cluster Health

VitalSigns automatically watches over the right metrics such as Replica.Cluster.SecondsOnQueue and Replica.Cluster.WorkQueueDepth to make sure that your cluster replicators are keeping up with their work load. If they aren’t, and users fail over, key information could be missing and the help desk will get swamped with calls. Be prepared.

VitalSigns also makes sure that there is a replica of each database across cluster members, and can produce a report showing the document count and database sizes.

As the Server.Availiabiliy approaches the Server.AvailablityThreshold, your Domino server is getting closer to failing over Notes clients to another server. VitalSigns detects this and lets you know.

Server Task Health

If the Domino server were a living body, then the server tasks would be the vital organs. A typical Domino server may have dozens of server tasks running at any given moment, such Agent Manager, HTTP, and Traveler, and Router. You need to make sure that they are all OK.

VitalSigns verifies and manages Domino Server Tasks, which means that it can automatically start missing tasks, stop prohibited tasks, detect task hangs, and even restart the server if key tasks are hung.

If your organization is running server tasks for compliance purposes, you can’t take the chance that task might not be running!

Disk Health

Disk problems can bring a Domino server down or cause significant performance problems. VitalSigns automatically watches over available disk space, average queue length, and disk utilization, and warns you before trouble can strike.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm

Mailscapes Exchange Reporting and Monitoring is Incredibly Intuitive According to WindowsIT Pro

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:31:00 +0000

A recent article by Peter Bruzzese of WindowsIT Pro reviews the latest features of Mailscape

Click here to View the WindowsIT Pro Article

Mailscape makes your job of monitoring the Exchange system easier by presenting real-time data on all the vital information that directly impacts Exchange uptime via Mailscape’s One Look Dashboard. Mailscape streamlines the process for you and provides an intuitive, visual approach to monitoring Exchange.

In the One-Look Dashboard, your monitored servers are listed down the left, while the vital components being monitored are listed across the top. All indicators will be green (good), yellow (warning), or red (critical). You can obtain in-depth information for any server by simply clicking on the indicator.

The beauty of the visual display is that it points you towards a solution even as it alerts you to a problem—it does not leave you adrift to figure out an issue’s cause and its solution.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Exchange_Management_and_Monitoring/Exchange_Management.htm

Compliance Attender Includes New ToneCheck module

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:47:00 +0000

Compliance Attender has a new ToneCheck module, powered by Lymbix, which provides sentiment analysis enabling users to write better emails. Organizations may purchase individual modules or combine them to build email compliance management software that fits their needs.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:
http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Email_Compliance/Domino_Email_Compliance.htm

Search, Find and Eliminate all PST's Before You Migrate to Exchange 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:07:00 +0000

Mail Attender: Mail Attender offers email administrators a variety of email management options from, outlook pst management to pst discovery and elimination or mailbox discovery and email content management for any Microsoft Exchange environment. It automatically manages the content of Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, provides email discovery to mailboxes, Outlook Personal Storage Folders (PST’s) and public folders. For example, in order to reduce storage requirements or limit legal liability, many organizations create email retention policies, only to find that enforcement is either too labor intensive or too reliant on user diligence. Mail Attender allows administrators to create custom retention policies and automatically enforce them independent of user interaction all through a central console.

Additionally, through it's rules based wizard, administrators can develop custom rules which will give them the ability to detect and copy to a specific location, users PST's (network or local), so that they can easily migrate this data to Exchange 2010 or a cloud based email archiving solution or Google Apps.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below: http://www.flexnet.com/Mail_Attender/Mail_Attender.htm

Server Task Tab Now Available on VitalSigns V10.4

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:43:00 +0000

One of the VitalSigns customers was having challenges with server tasks on one of their Domino servers, so we have improved the way we communicate Domino Server Task status. Now the information is clearly displayed with its own tab in VitalStatus, with a distinction of what is running and what is being monitored.

Additionally, the VitalSigns client also has improved balloon help when mousing-over the Status column.

For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below:

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm

Discovery Attender v.3.7 is Now Available, Including Sharepoint File Searching

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:07:00 +0000

Discovery Attender 3.7 now provides the ability to search, filter and collect files stored Sharepoint.

Sharepoint File Searching

New Compare Searches capability

Exchange 2010 Online Archive Support

Native NSF Processing

MSG Files Searching

Custodian Management

Re-Search Selected Tasks

Proximity Improvements

Additional Metadata Collection

Branch Expression Hits

Version 3.7 of Discovery Attender can be installed on a clean machine from previous 2.x and 3.x versions. For further information or to download a trial version of the software, please click on the url below.

http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Discovery/Email-Discovery-Attender.htm

PSTStation Releases Version 3.2.2

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Thu, 05 May 2011 12:57:00 +0000

Addon Mail releases PSTStation v3.2.2 which incorporates some exciting new changes. See below for further details.

Restore Jobs: You can now restore a PST from the PSTStation console by right-clicking on the source PST which has been previously backed up. It restores the latest successful backup.

Statistics: You can now get the statistics on the distribution of emails inside your PST based on age. For example, you can display number & volume of emails older than 3 years or older than 1 year or any emails which has been sent/received within the last six months. These statistics can be displayed for an individual PST, a user or a selection of PSTs.
PSTStation can also retrieve the PST Owner based on a statistic calculation of sent emails’ originators. (This is useful to reconcile ‘Lost and found’ PSTs).

Scan: PSTStation can automatic detect the username (ie ownership) from a directory path. Now, when scanning a server, PSTSTation can automatically retrieve username from fullpathname of PST.

Changes: Backup with client. PSTStation client no longer needs to be granted read/write rights privileges on the destination directory. With v3.2.2, new items can be backed up locally or on remote computer, and then sent to PSTStation server who merges these items with the backup f the PST. In previous versions, customers needed to give read/write rights access on the destination directory for each individual user.

For more information of to download PSTStation please click on the url below:
http://www.flexnet.com/PSTBackup/PSTDetection.htm

Sherpa Software Releases V4.7 of Mail Attender.

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:08:00 +0000

Mail Attender version 4.7 for Microsoft® Exchange environments is now available. This new release of Mail Attender significantly improves management capabilities for Exchange 2010 and desktop PST files, allowing administrators to automatically scan PST files located on user desktops to determine the owner of the PST data and report on it. Moreover, Mail Attender has greatly enhanced support for Exchange 2010 Personal Archive folders. Previously, Mail Attender allowed administrators to add information to the archive from mailboxes and PST files; now, administrators have full control over messages in the Personal Archive. They can copy, move, delete, import or report on messages in this mail folder based on administrator-defined criteria. To read more about Sherpa Software's Mail Attender for Exchange, visit our web site at: http://www.flexnet.com/Mail_Attender/Mail_Attender.htm

Exchange 2010 Offers Compelling Reasons to Upgrade

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:45:00 +0000

Microsoft cites three basic goals that guided the design of Exchange 2010: providing flexibility and reliability to reduce costs, increasing user productivity and satisfaction by giving them better tools to manage messaging, and providing improved compliance, retention, discovery, and governance tools. Flexibility, reliability, and productivity benefits in Exchange 2010 come from a combination of new features and refinements of existing ones. For example, the "ignore thread" feature in Exchange, which acts like a mute button for email, is a new feature, while the new architecture of Database Availability Groups (DAGs) is arguably a refinement of the continuous replication features from Exchange 2007. Many of the compliance and retention features in Exchange 2010 are refinements of older features, but there are new ones as well.

To read more about "Exchange 2010 Offers Compelling Reasons to Upgrade" white paper, visit our web site at:
http://www.flexnet.com/whitepaperDL/Ex2010_Reasons_toUpgrade.htm

Email Shuttle - Industrial Strength AnyWhere to AnyWhere™ Email Migration

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:24:00 +0000

E-Mail Shuttle™ provides a complete migration and coexistence solution from simple migration of inboxes and personal folders, to complex high performance gateways and directory synchronization to and from virtually any e-mail system.

E-Mail Shuttle migrates data for virtually any e-mail system including, but not limited to:

Microsoft® Exchange
Lotus® Notes®/Domino®
Novell® GroupWise®
IMAP4-compliant e-mail systems
Oracle® Collaboration Suite
Sun ONE Messaging Server™
Scalix
HP OpenMail
Fischer TAO

To learn more about "Email Shuttle", visit our web site at:

http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Migration/Any_To_Any_Email_Migration/EmailMigration.htm

Windows IT Pro Editors select Mailscape as "Best Messaging Product" of 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:26:00 +0000

ENow's Mailscape is named Gold Medal winner of the "2010 Editors’ Best Awards" in the Best Messaging category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro magazine. According to Penton Media, Mailscape garnered the top award, because it provides a simple view into complex messaging environments to help proactively address problems before they affect end users.

"The 2010 Editors’ Best Awards are in recognition of our editors’, contributors’, and authors’ favorite products of the year," said Jason Bovberg, senior editor at Windows IT Pro. "Our editorial experts' annual tradition of selecting winners based on a product’s strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages, and its value to the customer is particularly significant to the Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine this year, as we call out exceptional products in an economically tight, highly competitive market.

ENow's Mailscape Exchange Server monitoring product features a dashboard with red, yellow, and green lights indicating the health of each monitored server. "I chose it right then and there because it gave me what I needed for my support staff to be more proactive even though they're overburdened," said John O'Neill, Sr., Corporate Director of IT for Molded Fiber Glass. Additional Mailscape features that supported his Exchange 2010 migration also influenced O’Neil’s selection. "The ability to have information real-time and make fast decisions is the best advantage I think a team can have."

"We are are delighted that our unique approach to Exchange management is recognized and appreciated by the Microsoft community," noted Jay Gundotra, ENow’s CEO. "We spend a lot of time listening to our global network of clients and Exchange experts to ensure that Mailscape continues to exceed industry standards."

Mailscape is a complete systems management tool that combines key elements for Exchange monitoring, reporting and administration into a single solution. Mailscape’s innovative reporting module and robust monitoring features, coupled with personalized dashboard views that engage the Help Desk and other key personnel, continue to make Mailscape the preferred Exchange monitoring and reporting solution by IT administrators.

To learn more about Mailscape, visit our website at: http://www.flexnet.com/Exchange_Management_and_Monitoring/Exchange_Management.htm

VitalSigns V9.0 Just Released and Adds" Database Health" Functionality

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:12:00 +0000

VitalSigns monitors Lotus Domino server health better than any other product on the market. VitalSigns watches Overall Health, Cluster Health, Mail Health, Disk Health, and now with release 9, Database Health too.

When a user opens a critical Notes database only to wait for a view to be refreshed, to find out it hasn’t replicated, or worse– that it is corrupt, requiring a fixup, or a consistency check…bad things happen on the help desk. Avoid this embarrassment!

Database Health inventories your Notes databases across servers to find key properties such as Last Modified date, size, template name, quota, ODS, document count, replication settings, and more.

VitalSigns opens each view and refreshes it, which not only improves performance for end users but detects most database corruption

Click on the link below to see more information about VitalSigns-

http://www.flexnet.com/Lotus_Notes_Monitoring/Lotus_Domino_Server_Monitoring.htm

Just When You Think You Have All the Answers: Exchange 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:19:00 +0000

Are you migrating your messaging platform to Exchange 2010? Most organizations are at least considering this option. Yet many have unanswered questions or aren’t sure what questions to even ask. This will leave many IT departments who are making the move relatively unprepared for a major platform evaluation and deployment. Exchange Server 2010 is the first version of Exchange that makes the attempt to include built-in archiving and e-discovery directly into the product. As with many first attempts, however, major limitations to the functionality should be understood before deploying Exchange 2010. Because an upgrade of Exchange Server can be impactful and complex, caution suggests that organizations seriously examine the limitations of Exchange 2010’s archiving and e-discovery options and the migration challenges they will face.

This webinar will explore many of the questions IT professionals need to be aware of as they plan a migration to Exchange 2010. Specifically, we will outline the new personal email archives, the new e-discovery features and complexities of PST management and data migration. After listening to this webinar, you will understand how to leverage these new Exchange 2010 features as well as what limitations may require third-party supplements.

This webinar will be held on October 19, 2010 at 12:00 EDT or 9:00 AM PDT. To register for this webinar, please click on the url below.
www.windowsitpro.com/go/seminars/sherpa/Exchange2010?cid=Sherpalink5

Waiting to Upgrade: White Paper on Understanding Archiving and eDiscovery Limitations in Exchange 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:09:00 +0000

This white paper outlines the various archiving and eDiscovery features in Exchange 2010, examines how they work, and discusses various limitations in their deployment. It also focuses on the migration path from older Exchange versions to Exchange 2010 and some of the challenges with these migration approaches. The paper does not hypothesize that an upgrade doesn’t make sense at some point; it suggests that archiving and eDiscovery needs are generally not the main factors to consider when making a decision to upgrade, and organizations can potentially satisfy their archiving and eDiscovery needs today with older versions of Exchange combined with third-party tools and more.....

To view the entire white paper, please click on the url below.
http://www.flexnet.com/whitepaperDL/Waiting_to_Upgrade.htm#t

TransVault Version 5.2 is Now Available.

noreply@blogger.com (Wayne Simpson) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:16:00 +0000

TransVault is pleased to announce version 5.2.

5.2 introduces the ability to migrate archives from Microsoft Exchange to IBM Lotus Notes, re-formatting emails along the way. New supported platforms we’ve added include Metalogix PAM for Exchange, Autonomy Message Manager and the native Notes .NSF archive format.
There’s also a new, dedicated connector to ease migrations from archives back into Exchange (including Exchange 2010 and BPOS).
In brief, key features include:
· Support for Metalogix Professional Archive Manager for Exchange (PAM for Exchange)
· An Autonomy Message Manager (formerly CA Message Manager) connector
· Conversion of Exchange format emails into Notes format.
· Migration of IBM Lotus Notes .NSF files to any supported TransVault destination.
· A new, dedicated Exchange Connector, easing migrations to Microsoft Exchange, both onsite & hosted

Click on the url below to see further information about TransVault:
http://www.flexnet.com/Email_Archive_Migration/Email_Archive_Migration.htm