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Kerio Mail Server, Now Kerio Connect, supports CardDav!

December 1, 2009 – 11:36 am

Howie Issacks, a noted Kerio MailServer Expert, has written a new blog post about the up-coming Kerio Connect…

Beta 3 of Kerio Connect 7 (renamed from Kerio Mail Server) from Kerio Technologies, Inc. now supports CardDav. Snow Leopard users can now rejoice that fully native contacts synching is on the way.

When Apple’s Snow Leopard released on August 28th, Kerio Mail Server was not fully compatible with Snow Leopard. I have always enthusiastically upgraded to the latest version of Mac OS X on the date of the release, so when I found out that KMS was not going to support Snow Leopard, that was a major drawback. Although email was unaffected, Kerio Mail Server was not compatible with the new version of iCal in Snow Leopard. Anyone who upgraded to Snow Leopard found out afterward that their Kerio hosted calendar was read only in iCal, and could not be managed in iCal. Users would need to either modify their calendar from webmail, or use another device such as their iPhone. Kerio followed up with an update (6.7.2) less than a month later. The update fixed the incompatibility with iCal. With Snow Leopard, Apple added CardDav into Address Book. Along with CardDav, Apple also added an updated native Exchange synching feature in Address Book. This broke the ability for Address Book to synch with Kerio Mail Server through ‘Exchange’ synching. End users would need to use the Kerio Sync Connector instead, which is a separate add-on that needs to be installed, and later, manually updated each time that there is a Kerio Mail Server update. Kerio Sync Connector will synchronize the user’s contacts and calendars with the Kerio server automatically. Calendar synching can also be handled through CalDav instead of using the Kerio Sync Connector.

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GetSync’d and Kerio MailServer Support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

September 24, 2009 – 12:57 pm

GetSync’d.Com is happy to announce that the new release of Kerio MailServer 6.7.2 is is now out of beta and ready to roll out, bringing full support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard!

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Release Notes for Kerio MailServer 6.7.2

Kerio Technologies. All rights reserved. September 24, 2009 Revision: 1.0

Changes in Kerio MailServer 6.7.2

Support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Kerio MailServer 6.7.2 brings most advanced support for new version of Mac OS X. The server can run on both workstation or Mac OS X Server. Kerio Sync Connector for Mac has been up- dated for seamless integration with 64-bit System Preferences and contains improved reporting system for sending debug logs and error reports to Kerio.
Kerio iCal Config Tool now supports automatic configuration of CalDAV account in Apple iCal client on Mac OS X 10.6.

Support for Apple iPhone 3.1
Software update for Apple iPhone — version 3.1 — is now fully supported in Kerio MailServer 6.7.2. This includes also support for Apple iPod Touch 3.1.1.

Support for Microsoft Windows 7
Both Kerio MailServer and Kerio Outlook Connector client are fully compatible with upcoming Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

AVG Anti-Virus plug-in update
Antivirus plug-in for AVG Anti-Virus has been updated to use new communication protocol and support most recent versions of the AVG Anti-Virus on Windows and Linux. Supported version is AVG Anti-Virus 8.5 and higher. AVG Anti-virus 7 and older are no longer supported. A guide for installing and configuring AVG Anti-Virus with Kerio MailServer is available in Kerio Knowledgebase at http://support.kerio.com/.

Clam AntiVirus plug-in update
New antivirus plug-in for Clam AntiVirus 0.95 is extending the list of supported external an- tivirus products. The plug-in is available for all operating systems. ClamAV 0.93 and 0.94 antivirus can be used with current version of antivirus plug-in.

Support for Dr.Web antivirus
New antivirus plug-in for Dr.Web antivirus is available to Kerio customers. The plug-in can be installed with Dr.Web for Kerio MailServer product available at Dr.Web website: http://products.drweb.com/mailserver/kerio/. Dr.Web for Kerio MailServer can be in- stalled on any supported Microsoft Windows version.

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Kerio MailServer Now Available As An App On Demand

August 13, 2009 – 2:53 am

App On Demand Offers Hosted Evaluation of Kerio MailServer Virtual Appliance for Near Instant Access to Web Client and Administration Testing

SAN JOSE, Calif. –– August 11, 2009 –– Kerio Technologies, Inc., a leading innovator in IT security and messaging, today announced that Kerio MailServer Virtual Appliance is available as a VMware App on Demand beta offering from the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM). As part of VMware’s vCloud initiative, VAM App on Demand enables end users to get up and running with the Kerio MailServer VMware Ready Virtual Appliance in minutes in the cloud. It is available at http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/121903.

This new offering allows organizations to instantly preview Kerio MailServer features from a browser. Users can evaluate Kerio’s WebMail and the web administration, which allows them to create and configure users, groups, and aliases in the test domain. With the new App On Demand from VMware, evaluators have a full hour to add contacts and calendar events in Kerio’s WebMail and even send test messages to newly created mailboxes without having to download or install the product.

“We are seeing a high level of interest and usage in the VMware VAM App on Demand beta from our partners, users, and the community because it enables simplified delivery and use of software applications through the cloud,” said Wendy Perilli, director, product marketing, VMware. “We are excited to include Kerio MailServer as part of the beta roll-out of App on Demand, and we expect users will be excited to evaluate this software without the hardware provisioning and setup required with traditional proof of concepts.”

“We are honored to be one of the first appliances available with VMware’s new App on Demand product,” said James Gudeli, vice president of Business Development for Kerio Technologies. “This new innovative environment makes it easy to evaluate software quickly with no resources, which helps further reduce the cost of deploying new technologies.”

Availability
For a more thorough evaluation, Kerio MailServer 6.7 Virtual Appliance is available for download as a 30-day unrestricted trial and supports VMware ESX Server, Workstation and Player. The product is localized into 16 languages. For more information, please visit: http://www.kerio.com/kms.

About VMware VAM App on Demand
The VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace connects leading ISVs and grass root developers with cloud environments and users. This unique marketplace enables software providers with a simplified on ramp to delivering software optimized for virtual environments. And now with the addition of the App on Demand beta feature, placing trial software in the cloud makes proof of concepting simpler for users. In addition to the beta applications offered as Apps on Demand, there are also VMware vCloud Service Providers delivering free Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) trials to enable users to try their own applications in the cloud.

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Do SMBs need the complexity of Microsoft Exchange to share email, contacts, and calendars?

August 8, 2009 – 11:58 am

Original Article written by John Green from Windows IT Pro

This is the excerpt of the review done by John on Kerio MailServer…

Kerio MailServer 6 (KMS) from Kerio Technologies is a full-featured mail server that includes groupware features. Its support for the Microsoft Entourage email client and Apple Computer Open Directory under Macintosh OS X sets it apart from the other products I reviewed.

KMS authenticates user access in one of three ways: using its own internal database, by authenticating to Windows NT domain accounts, or by authenticating to AD or Apple Open Directory using Kerberos 5. Unlike MDaemon and ICS, which ask you to select a single source to use to authenticate all email accounts, KMS lets you choose a different authentication method for different accounts. For each mail domain you create, you can specify the name of one Windows NT and one AD domain, which will be used to authenticate users who use Windows NT and Kerberos 5 authentication, respectively.

AD integration causes KMS to import all users and groups within the target AD domain. AD simplifies mail user administration, letting you enter the information KMS needs when you create or update a user’s AD account. AD integration requires the installation of Kerio Active Directory Schema Extensions. Although I didn’t install the schema extensions to test this functionality, KMS’s implementation appears to be flexible, supporting KMS mail users sourced from one AD domain alongside users defined through the KMS administrative interface.

Installing KMS was simple: I had only to select a location for the software and enter the mail domain name and a name and password for a mail administrator. KMS includes a Web server in support of Web-based client and administrative users. By default, it uses all the standard ports, so you’ll have conflicts if IIS is installed on the same server.

KMS offers two administrative interfaces: a GUI and a Web-based interface. The Web interface lets you manage only Users, Groups, and Aliases, so it isn’t full featured, but I found it easy to use. KMS’s Custom Setup option lets you install the GUI and Help files to your desktop for full remote administration. And the Help files actually do help.

I started my testing by using both the Web interface and the GUI to create a set of users and groups. In KMS, groups serve a dual purpose: They’re used for folder authorization and for group email distribution. Creating an email address for a group is optional.

The Kerio Outlook Connector is a replacement MAPI provider and requires Outlook’s presence on the computer before it can be installed. After the installation, which is a routine process, you must create a new Outlook profile. In Outlook 2000, you configure the Kerio MailServer option, then manually add Outlook Address Book support. In Outlook 2003, and 2007, selecting Additional Server types presents the Kerio MailServer option with preconfigured address book support. The KMS MAPI provider can coexist with other POP3 and IMAP accounts but must be the only MAPI provider in the profile.

KMS offers three assignable levels of access rights—Reader, Editor, and Administrator—and assigns Owner rights to a folder’s primary user. Implementing collaboration features was pretty easy. Anyone who has Administrator rights to a folder can create subfolders and assign rights within the folder structure using Outlook or Kerio WebMail. KMS supports six folder types: Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, and Journal.

Users can share private folders the same way an administrator shares public folders. On the Sharing and Security tab of a folder’s Properties page, select or type the name of a user or group and assign the access privileges you want to allow. Users who aren’t owners must ask to see the folder before it will appear in their folder list, a process called Folder Mapping (in Outlook) or Subscribing (in WebMail).

Free/busy meeting scheduling worked well and was the easiest to implement of the products I tested. KMS looks only at a user’s primary calendar and its subfolders when collecting free/busy information. Names from each Contacts folder that I marked for display as an email address book were available when I selected meeting participants. Also, KMS collects free/busy data only from those who use a supported client: Outlook with the Outlook Connector, Entourage, or WebMail.

KMS’s built-in Web server supports two Web-based interfaces: Kerio WebMail for desktop use and Kerio WebMail Mini, a lightweight Web interface for use with PDAs and other handheld devices. Users will enjoy the full-featured, easy-to-use Web-Mail interface. I adjusted easily to the layout, which is similar to an Outlook Folder view, as Figure 3 shows. Right-clicking a folder or a mail item produces useful context menus, and a Settings button provides entry to options such as Rules, Out-of-Office setup, and the client refresh interval. Reminders pop up and provide Snooze and Dismiss options.

I found it easy to navigate KMS’s UIs and administrative interfaces. Additionally, the AD extensions add a dimension of integration and manageability unique to KMS among the products I reviewed.

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