Monday, October 27, 2008

Scalix 11.4.2

Not a lot of new functionality, but a bunch of bug fixes. New features for this release:

* Support for OpenSuSE 10.2 is replaced with support for OpenSuSE 11.0 on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.
* Support for Lightning/Sunbird with initial support for Lightning 0.9 (although I have had issues with this, a bug has been logged)
* Delegated Administration will allow you to delegate certain managament task to other users.

Release notes and full list of big fixes:
http://downloads.scalix.com/.community/11.4.2/RELEASE_NOTES.html

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Blackberry Activesync Clients

Blackberry users who have an email systems not supported by RIM have either had to run the clunky NotifyLink software or use a cable sync. (ugh!) There are two new exciting products coming to market in the very near future:

AstraSync - http://www.astrasync.com/

Beta was recently released. There is a public forum available, and while there are people with issues...it appears there are many happy users. Unfortunately, the currently only support Exchange 2007. (with support for '03 coming soon)

NotifySync- http://notifysync.notify.net/Portal.asp

NotifySync is still in beta, but they appear to have much broader server support. They currently claim support Exchange 03 & 07, Communigate, Kerio, Zimbra. And while not explicitly mentioned, Zarafa & Scalix should work too.