Today’s messaging and collaboration systems must be highly reliable: end users need access to email and calendaring 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Designing a reliable messaging and collaboration environment entails choosing the proper storage, server and operating system. Many of us employ storage area networks (SANs) to provide that storage reliability, but […]
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Extending Zimbra with Server Extensions
Zimlets and the ability to extend the Zimbra Web Client is a pretty widely known capability. But did you know that Zimbra also has a framework that allows developers to extend Zimbra server-side functionality? Zimbra Server Extensions provide a mechanism to add functionality to the server in lieu of modifying web.xml and other web server […]
Revisiting the Zimbra REST API…
By Jeff Sposetti on February 3, 2010 in Community, PowerTips – Admins, PowerTips – Users, Zimbra Server, Zimbra Web Client
For years, the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) has exposed mailbox data via REST. And lately, a few customers have asked about the Zimbra REST API (e.g. How is the API used? What methods are available? How does the Zimbra REST API compare to the Zimbra SOAP API?). So I thought it would be good to […]
6 Tips for a Smooth Zimbra Server Install
It may sound odd offering more Zimbra installation advice since there is a lot on the subject in other blogs, our documents, wiki and Forums. In fact, some quick research surfaced over 1.4 million hits for Zimbra server install on the web and 36,000 on the Zimbra site alone. But we are also fortunate to […]
ZCS-to-ZCS Migrations
By Mike Morse on September 30, 2008 in Community, Open Source, PowerTips – Admins, PowerTips – Users, Zimbra Server
Someone in the forums recently asked about ways to migrate individual accounts from one ZCS instance to another, so thought I’d share the enlightenment with all. Whether you are going from an on-premise install to a hosting provider, want to create handy archives of old employee accounts, or just need to duplicate mailbox contents of […]
Admin Tools & Tidbits – Part 2
Part 1 covered Network Edition backup features, today’s snips apply to all editions. First among the lesser known additions: We recently provided the possibility for a nice performance boost to some environments by adding the ability to turn on batched indexing in ZCS 5.0.3 (you can even fine tune it at the localconfig, COS, and […]