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

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.

Read the complete case study
Visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Website

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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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Your First Month is on Us!
For any new 1U colocation customer in September, receive the first month for free! Call and ask to speak to one of our sales engineers today for more details 800.957.4872.

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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!

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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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.

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.