November 2006 Newsletter
November Promotion
FREE Mobile Setup!
For the month of November, you can offer your customers FREE setup on either BlackBerry or Good Messaging mobility services through groupSPARK. All you have to do is add mobility to at least five mailboxes, and once you hit that mark, all of your November activations are FREE, including the first five.
If you have been waiting for the right time to push mobility services on your customers, this is it!
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Marketing Tip
Use Our Promotions!
Each month we’ll be presenting our partners with a new promotional offer. Take advantage of these opportunities by letting your client base know about them through phone or email campaigns. Short, concise emails with stand-out subject titles will catch the attention of your clients and the additional contact will help to reinforce your relationship with them.
Lower Support Costs
Outlook Zero Config Tool
Our new pre-setup software will automatically create a new Outlook profile for your Exchange Hosting mailbox. Whether using the Zero Config Tool for new accounts, or to administer current accounts, the Zero Config Tool will help cut down your Exchange support costs drastically.
For more on the Outlook Zero Config Tool, login to your Control Panel, and visit the Support Answer Center
Ferris Research
Exchange Hosting Webinar
groupSPARK and Ferris Research are pleased to extend an invitation to join our Exchange Hosting webinar coming up on November 7th at 11:30 (EST)
Outsourcing Microsoft Exchange is becoming more practical. In this free webinar, we’ll discuss considerations for organizations thinking about outsourcing their messaging function, look at the types and sizes of organizations that hosted exchange appeals to, and explore what a typical implementation look like.
This is going to be a great chance to get answers to questions you may have and to hear from industry leaders on how they see the market evolving.
What’s New
groupSPARK Archiving Solution
groupSPARK has partnered with Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services to provide customers with an industry-leading Archiving solution; delivering a security-enhanced and virtually tamper-proof archiving answer for your e-mail needs.
Corporate message retention has become a way of business life. With laws being passed that govern the length of time business e-mail is retained, the manner in which it must be preserved and specific message review requirements, the need for a centralized, multitasking mail repository is growing. In addition, the increasing likelihood that e-mail will be required for legal discovery encourages enterprises to take a proactive approach to e-mail retention policies to mitigate risk.
This service is designed to help enterprises meet a variety of regulatory and legal demands placed on their electronic communications systems. It’s deployed over the Internet, which helps eliminate up-front capital investment, free up IT resources to focus on value-producing initiatives, and mitigate messaging risks before they reach the corporate network.
SharePoint Templates
New SharePoint Templates!
To further improve our SharePoint offering, we have recently installed more that 60 new templates. Use these templates to easily create a customized Intranet site to share information with your Co- Workers. The new templates include everything from “Absence and Vacation Schedules” to “Travel Requests” and quite a bit in between. Have a look at the new site templates; you’ll be amazed at what you can do with SharePoint!
Private Labeling and SSLs
Private Label Your URLs
The key aspect of a true private labeled solution is that your customers only see your URLs - everywhere. Now, you can use your own domain name, i.e., Exch.YourDomain.com - instead of rpc.myoutlookonline.com, for the RPC/HTTPS URL that your customers type into their Outlook to connect to Exchange Server. We get an SSL certificate for your custom Exch.YourDomain.com which is then used for SSL-enabled OWA, ActiveSync, OMA, control panel and RPC/HTTPS.
