Burlington, MA, October 2, 2006 – groupSPARK today announced the signup of the 500th partner for its GAIN Partner Program.  Working from the ground up groupSPARK developed PLAD - Private Label Application Delivery™ Platform - which enables channel partners and resellers to private label the entire Hosted Exchange service – including SharePoint, Blackberry Server, and Good Server. This allows the partners to provide this valuable solution to their small-mid sized customers and create an easy recurring revenue stream with no ongoing work and minimal investment.

“Until recently, ISPs and hosting companies had to develop the service in-house requiring a large capital investment for both equipment and manpower to implement and maintain a Hosted Exchange offering” says Ravi Agarwal, CEO of groupSPARK.  “groupSPARK provides this needed service to ISPs and hosting companies allowing them to tap into a nearly untouched billion dollar market.  We are one of the fastest growing Exchange Hosting companies in the U.S. and reaching this 500 partner milestone proves this out.”

Only four months ago, groupSPARK announced their 400th Hosted Exchange Partner had signed.  “We have been very aggressive with the press and trade shows.  Microsoft has invited us to speak with them and to have a presence in their booths at trade shows.  All of these factors are definitely helping us continue to grow.” says Mr. Agarwal.

Burlington, MASSACHUSETTS, May, 2006 – Arguably the biggest improvement in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 is the efficient Public Folder Settings Wizard allowing for seamless system administration. The addition of this new software package is more than welcoming to the tech support team at GROUPspark.com, a leading exchange hosting company and provider of useful exchange server related news and events, http://www.groupspark.com.

The new Public Folder Settings Wizard replaces the old dated propagate settings with a new “manage settings” selection from the “All Tasks” menu. The older propagate settings were accessed through the menu commands allowing administrators to copy specified properties of a selected public folder to the subfolders beneath it. Now with the selection of “Manage Settings” once right-clicking an administrator is prompted with an easy to follow wizard system.

The Public Folders Wizard will allow an administrator to choose one of three options; modify client permissions, modify lists of replica servers and overwrite settings – make sure to use the settings of the folder that you selected to overwrite the settings of all of its subfolders.

In addition to the Public Folders Wizard, Service Pack 2 has a plethora of options allowing for easier administrator from the ability to synchronize hierarchy, stopping and resuming public folder content replication, tracking public folder deletions, and the ability to delete public folder stores.

Although these additions found in Service Pack 2 can not create a fool proof system things are getting close. Now with the addition of the Public Folder Settings Wizard, administrators can manage their network users and permissions with much ease and organization reducing the amount of clutter commonly found in network hierarchies.

About GROUPspark
GROUPspark, Inc is the #1 rated Exchange Hosting company, thanks to our outstanding uptime, delightful customer service and laser-like focus on running robust Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers.

For nine years now - since 1997, we’ve been in the hosting business. And for the last five years, we have been helping small businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server. Our servers are located in a tier-1 data center. With multiple layers of redundancy and focus on the highest levels of security, our infrastructure is designed to make you productive and secure.
For additional information about GROUPspark.com and their exchange hosting, check their web site at http://www.groupspark.com/.