If you’re attending the Large Installation System Administration conference in San Diego this week, Steve Hillman (one of our community moderators hailing from Simon Fraser University) is holding a “Birds-of-a-Feather” session on Wednesday, November 12th. Details are here, with more on LISA – from technical workshops to streaming presentation and keynote feeds over here. For […]
Mailboxes: Sharing vs. Relationships
Last year we brought shared mail folders into play to join the rest of the sharing possibilities ZCS offers, but we don’t want to overlook mentioning another feature in 5.0 that has some excellent use cases. Let’s say you need to collaborate with an assistant (who of course manages everything for you). While sharing is […]
The CAUSE for Education
EDUCAUSE 08 that is. We’re big proponents of bringing the latest technology to students and faculty, because countless organizations enjoy using our software in the classroom – as both a communication tool and to teach. So of course we’ll be at this year’s annual EDUCAUSE conference in Orlando, FL from Oct 28th to 31st. If […]
Powering The New Yahoo Calendar
A year an a half ago the (tiny) Yahoo! Calendar team embarked on a mission to build a new Calendar. We were interested in cracking the consumer market where huge potential for growth and innovation lay. The problem was that the 10 year old platform was falling apart and being held together by bungee cord […]
Zimbra Desktop Beta 4
Zimbra Desktop Beta 3 added a wealth of new features to our offline capable client, and Beta 4 expands upon it’s good taste. Build 1338 introduces: Global Address List access against a ZCS server (both proxy and sync). Free-busy information proxy for ZCS users, to assist in finding that open timeslot on your colleague’s calendar. […]
Interop: Connect as one unit.
One of the more nifty features to grace the Zimbra scene recently is the interoperability framework for sharing two-way free/busy information with other server platforms. Since we released the framework APIs and the reference implementation against Microsoft’s Exchange 2003 (previously covered) there has been a lot of interest from customers and community (interop works with […]