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Cloud Computing, Small Business Server 2011 and More! LogicalSolutions.net’s February eNewsletter
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Email is the most common first step when an organization begins migrating to the cloud. Why? Moving to an Enterprise Class Data Center gives you multiple internet providers and N+ 1 redundancy in server power. Combine these features with increased physical security and 24 hour video surveillance and you have a more reliable environment with increased security. Here are a few common questions and concerns for hosting your email in the cloud:
- What are the benefits of moving my email to the cloud? There are many benefits to the cloud. The two benefits that provide the largest impact are no hardware or OS licenses to purchase and you can free up your IT staff for mission critical tasks. When you move to a hosted or cloud environment, there is no hardware to purchase and maintain. This can streamline your budget into a predictable monthly recurring cost while eliminating the surprises of unexpected hardware upgrade, replacement, etc. You no longer have to be fielding support calls and maintenance to your mail server.
- Is it secure? You bet it is. We have several different types of Hosted Exchange with security being a priority. Whether you’re using our shared Cloud Exchange environment or we setup a dedicated server, the only one with access to your information is you. We also provide email encryption to ensure your messages are secure on route to their destination.
- Am I compliant? EarthLink is a fully compliant, SAS70 Type II certified facility. In addition, we also provide full HIPAA and GLBA compliant email hosting. More often than not, organizations with which we discuss compliant email with are not compliant with their current, in-house solution. We can provide encryption, archiving, and a dedicated environment with managed firewalls and custom security policies. Migrate your email to the cloud and let the experts handle your compliant environment.
- What about uptime and availability? We guarantee a 100% uptime when it comes to our network and facility. This is something we take very seriously. We provide carrier neutral bandwidth on multiple fiber rings with redundancy you simply can’t match internally. We also have 99.99% SLA guarantees on our managed services.
- Who manages my email? EarthLink is a Microsoft Gold Partner. Your Exchange environment is managed by our Microsoft Certified staff. We are Exchange experts and have 10+ years of managing hosted Exchange environments.
- Cost? When you look at the total cost for hardware, software and a dedicated email admin, migrating to the cloud can easily cut your email budget in half.
Whether you’re looking to upgrade to Exchange 2010 or simply migrating your current environment to the cloud, let us help. We make the transition painless and as seamless as possible. Contact us today to learn more.
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 Moving to the Cloud in 2011 Looking to move to Exchange 2010 or leverage Cloud Services this year? Speak to one of our Sales Engineers to see how adding application failover and virtualization can cut IT costs and spending in 2011. Whether you’re looking for offsite disaster recovery or looking to run your production environment in the cloud, we have you covered. Our trained staff has custom solutions built for you with the experience and expertise to make the migration as seemless as possible.
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“New Cloud Server iPhone App” EarthLink has a new gateway to your cloud servers on our latest Cloud Hosting Platform. The Cloud Server iPhone App allows customers to view all of their server information as well as functionality to control tasks on the server. |
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September eNewsletter
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Annual IT Networking Event
A special thanks to all who attended our annual IT networking event last month. We had a great turnout and look forward to hosting the event again next year!
If you still haven’t had a chance to see our new customer lounge, give us a call and stop out and see us today!
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September Featured Case Study
EarthLink’s featured case study in September is The National Baseball Hall of Fame.
National Baseball Hall of Fame: Cutting costs while moving to a highly available cloud environment, EarthLink was able to migrate the website from traditional dedicated servers to a cost effective, more redundant virtualized cloud environment. The team leverages virtualization software to provide a far more scalable environment to ensure 100% uptime.
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“Become Your Own Exchange 2010 Admin”
by Mike Salviski
With the EarthLink Exchange 2010 Hosted Control Panel, not only do you control costs but you can also control your Exchange 2010 environment. With our Hosted Exchange 2010 Control Panel, you can manage and edit your company’s Exchange options with the click of a button.
Our Exchange 2010 Control Panel offers you the ability to control…
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View Comments →Email Hosting in the Cloud
Managing the email environment internally at any organization can be one of the most costly and time consuming aspects to any IT department. That’s why outsourcing your email management and taking advantage of EarthLink’s email hosting in the cloud makes perfect sense. Dramatically decrease your costs while adding reliability with one of our 4 email solutions.
Dedicated Email – Starting at $150 for a Windows VPS
Hosted Exchange 2010 – Starting at $12 per mailbox per month
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Setting up Outlook Connection to Exchange 2010 using Outlook Anywhere
Use Outlook Anywhere to connect to your Exchange server without VPN. To use outlook anywhere there are server setting that need to be made on the exchange server. Why enable Outlook Anywhere? Outlook can connect to Exchange through the Internet by using remote procedure call (RPC) over HTTPS. The Outlook Anywhere feature allows you to access your Exchange account remotely from the Internet when you are working outside your organization’s firewall.
Before you attempt to use outlook anywhere check with your exchange administrator to make sure this is set up.
To make the connection
Open up the control panel
Click the Mail icon
Click on Show Profiles
Click Add
Enter name and press “OK”
Check “Manually configure Server settings” Click Next
Check “Microsoft Exchange” Click Next
Enter Server name, Username and click More Settings
This should popup a window asking for the connection information to the exchange server
Enter in your username as “Domain name\username”
Then Enter your password. Check remember password if you wish. Click OK
This will bring up the more settings Window
Click on the Connection Tab
Check the box for “Connect to Microsoft Exchange using HTTP”
Then Click on “Exchange Proxy Settings”
Enter Server name and click OK.
This will take you to the following screen.
Click OK.
Now you can click next.
Click finish.
If I have more than 1 profile I always have Outlook ask me to choose on startup
Click OK and open up outlook
Select your new user and click OK
This will ask for the login credentials again.
Enter in your username as “Domain name\username”
Then Enter your password. Check remember password if you wish. Click OK
This should open up Outlook and you should be all set, now enjoy working remote and VPN Free with Exchange!
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Mark Your Calendar
EarthLink will be hosting our IT Networking Event on Thursday August 19th from 4-7pm. Join us for food, drinks, data center tours and networking! Invitations to follow.
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EarthLink continues to grow. As we grow we purchase more bandwidth to make available to our customers. This means we have been able to reduce our bandwidth costs, translating into lower costs to you! Get a free rate quote today!
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Client Portal Expanded
Our team has been working hard over the past month with a variety of network upgrades. Included in this is the capability for our colocation customers to view real-time data for their bandwidth and power usage through their customer portal.
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Microsoft Hosted Exchange 2010
EarthLink now offers a managed Hosted Exchange 2010 enterprise email solution for as low as $12/month per mailbox! This comes with all the features including Outlook Web App, Outlook support, Active Sync, Mobile Support and more! Click the link below for the estimator calculator today.
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As a leading data center services provider there are many factors that go into managing a successful enterprise class colocation and hosting facility. Each one is equally important and benefits not only our customers from a technology standpoint, but a business one as well. While building our new SAS70 Type II data center in Rochester, NY, redundancy was engineered into every component of the facility to provide the most reliable and cost effective data center services in the industry.
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Secure, Encrypted Microsoft Exchange Hosting
Email security is becoming a major concern these days. More and more organizations are looking to have their email encrypted and secure. Still, not all hosted email providers offer email encryption. EarthLink does.
EarthLink and strategic partner xDefenders offer a secure hosted email suite of services. This includes a fully managed dedicated Microsoft Exchange environment, Postini spam filter, anti-virus protection, industry leading ZixCorp email encryption for optimal email security, MailArchive with e-discovery and ShareDefender for sharing large files and documents.
Many industries have regulations that require encrypted email and archiving. For example, the financial industry is held under GLBA regulation and the health care industry is regulated under HIPAA. Our hosted solutions have you covered. We are GLBA, HIPAA and SAS70 Type II compliant. We have a full team of certified engineers that include CISSPA, CISA, MCDT, MCP, MCSE and MCSA certifications. EarthLink is a Microsoft Gold Partner.
Our complete solutions include:
- Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010
- Outlook Web App
- Active Directory Support
- Active Sync Support
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server Support
- Mail Archiving
- Postini Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus Protection
- Zix Encryption Inspection Outbound
- Zix Portal
- ShareDefender Portal for Large Files
- Secure Instant Messaging
Not sure how to get started? Contact one of our Sales Engineers for a free consultation.
View Comments →Microsoft Exchange 2010
Here at EarthLink we recently rolled out an update our own mail server to Microsoft Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 brings with it many new updates and enhancements, especially for you corporate users who may have skipped 2007 and are still on version 2003. One of the largest leaps forward is enhancements made to the Outlook Web App (OWA) feature. Outlook Web App, or OWA, allows you to access your Exchange 2010 e-mail features from your browser. This helps eliminate the need to be tied to your personal computer configured with Outlook web client.
One major improvement for OWA is the multiple browser support. Previously an Exchange user of OWA would have to use Internet Explorer. In version 2010, OWA is now supported for not only Internet Explorer, but Firefox, Safari and even Chrome.
Click the thumbnail above. You can see that OWA is completely functional in the Google Chrome browser.
Another new feature for OWA is the conversation view. The new conversation view allows you to group multiple threads from a single conversation together. This will make your inbox management far more efficient. If you’re a user of Google’s Gmail email system, you’re very familiar with how this works and probably quite excited to see it come to your corporate email system.
Click the thumbnail above for an example of conversation viewing.
A personal favorite new feature of mine is the shared calendar interface in OWA. In previous versions, you had limited accessibility to viewing calendars. Now with 2010, it’s as if you were on your PC working with the Outlook application. You can even enable sharing with people outside your organization allowing for increased collaboration.
Click the thumbnail above for a better view of OWA calendar sharing.
Finally, as more and more enterprise organizations are looking to outsource their IT needs, additional features are becoming available to allow this to become easier every day. In the past you were restricted to access your Exchange application through OWA or connecting via VPN. Now with Outlook Anywhere, you can use Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2007 or 2003 to connect to your Exchange server outside your corporate network without hassle. Benefits of using Outlook Anywhere allows your users to have remote access to the Exchange servers from the internet while using the same URL and namespace that you use for OWA and ActiveSync. Also, there’s no need to purchase an additional secure certificate either. You can use the same SSL that you use for OWA and ActiveSync. For additional information on the long list of benefits configuring and managing Outlook Anywhere and Outlook 2010, contact one of our Sales Engineers today.
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