After another late night for our Zimbra team we’re delighted to report that Zimbra002 server has been successfully upgraded to Zimbra 6.
Support Notices
April 15th, 2010
Zimbra002 now live with Zimbra 6
April 13th, 2010
Zimbra 002 Upgrade to Zimbra Version 6
As announced last week, the planned upgrade to Zimbra Version 6 on the Zimbra002 server is on target for midnight tomorrow (Wednesday 14th April into Thursday 15th April) and will take approximately half an hour.
This upgrade will incur a short amount of downtime when you will not be able to access your mailbox. However, no emails will be delayed at this time as our unique infrastructure allows us to queue messages for delivery when the system comes back online.
After this is complete we suggest that you upgrade to the latest version of Zimbra Connector, available from our support pages.
Important: In order for Zimbra Connector for Outlook (ZCO) to work properly with Zimbra 6.0.x, users must have Microsoft Outlook 2003 Service Pack 3. If users don’t already have Service Pack 3 installed (the majority of users will have this already), ZCO users may see the error “can’t open your default folders” and then Outlook will shut down. Outlook 2007 is not impacted by this.
No other action is required on your part.
April 8th, 2010
Zimbra001 now running Zimbra 6
After a late night for our Zimbra team we’re delighted to report that Zimbra001 server has been successfully upgraded to Zimbra 6.
Zimbra002 to follow next week.
April 6th, 2010
Upgrades to Zimbra 6
As announced last week, the planned upgrade to Zimbra Version 6 on the Zimbra001 server is on target for midnight tomorrow (Wednesday 7th April into Thursday 8th April) and will take approximately half an hour.
This upgrade will incur a short amount of downtime when you will not be able to access your mailbox. However, no emails will be delayed at this time as our unique infrastructure allows us to queue messages for delivery when the system comes back online.
After this is complete we suggest that you upgrade to the latest version of Zimbra Connector, available from our support pages.
Important: In order for Zimbra Connector for Outlook (ZCO) to work properly with Zimbra 6.0.x, users must have Microsoft Outlook 2003 Service Pack 3. If users don’t already have Service Pack 3 installed (the majority of users will have this already), ZCO users may see the error “can’t open your default folders” and then Outlook will shut down. Outlook 2007 is not impacted by this.
No other action is required on your part.
Zimbra002 will be upgraded to Zimbra 6 from Midnight on Wednesday 14th April.
April 1st, 2010
Upgrades to Zimbra 6
Following on from recent upgrades to our Zimbra servers we are delighted to announce the planned upgrade to Zimbra Version 6.
Zimbra 6 delivers a host of new features that enhance user experience, such as:
- Greatly improved integration with Microsoft Outlook
- Greatly improved Calendar functionality and management
- Sync tasks, view tasks by status and print Task Lists
- Users can enable/disable Zimlets (from our list of available ones)
- Greatly improved Zimbra Mobile functionality
- Optional Mandatory Spell Check
- Improved Shared Folder Management
- Ability to run Filters over existing emails
- Improved View Options
- Optional Read Receipt management
- Multiple Compose Tabs
- Multiple Forwarding Addresses
- Ability to sort messages by size
- Select and print multiple messages at once
- Create and manage documents, presentations and spreadsheets directly in Briefcase
- Attach Briefcase documents to emails sent
- Greatly improved Zimbra Mobile functionality
In order to minimise any disruption we plan to implement this upgrade as follows:
Zimbra001: from Midnight on Wednesday 7th April and will take approximately half an hour.
Zimbra002: from Midnight on Wednesday 14th April and will take approximately half an hour.
Each upgrade will incur a short amount of downtime when you will not be able to access your mailbox. However, no emails will be delayed at this time as our unique infrastructure allows us to queue up messages for delivery when the system comes back online.
After this is complete we suggest that you upgrade to the latest version of Zimbra Connector, available from our support pages.
Important: In order for Zimbra Connector for Outlook (ZCO) to work properly with Zimbra 6.0.x, users must have Microsoft Outlook 2003 Service Pack 3. If users don’t already have Service Pack 3 installed (the majority of users will have this already), ZCO users may see the error “can’t open your default folders” and then Outlook will shut down. Outlook 2007 is not impacted by this.
No other action is required on your part.
March 24th, 2010
Faxtastic – now with local numbers across the UK
With further developments to our acclaimed Fax to Email service, Faxtastic, we’re delighted to announce that we can now provide geographic fax numbers for the whole of the UK. For a full list of area codes please take a look here: https://www.faxtastic.co.uk/signup
March 18th, 2010
Hotmail Problems
Since around 11:30am GMT this morning hotmail has not been accepting any inbound email for hotmail.com, .co.uk live or msn domains.
When our SMTP servers try to make a connection to any of hotmail MX servers the connection is either accepted and then closed immediately or outright rejected.
There is nothing on the hotmail/Microsoft postmaster site to acknowledge the problem at this stage however it has been reported on twitter that it may be down for as long as 8 hours which allegedly came from a Microsoft technical support representative.
If you have sent an email to someone on Hotmail, our servers will continue to retry to deliver the message until the Hotmail servers come back on-line. You don’t need to re-send.
March 18th, 2010
Upgrade to Zimbra002
Upgrade to Zimbra002
We are pleased to report that the overnight upgrade to Zimbra002 was successful and the server is now running version 5.0.22 – the most up-to-date release of Zimbra 5.
More news on upgrades to Zimbra 6 to follow shortly.
March 15th, 2010
Zimbra Upgrade – planned maintenance to Zimbra002
Upgrade to Zimbra002
Following on from last weeks successful upgrade to the Zimbra001 server, we will be upgrading Zimbra002 overnight on Wednesday 17th/Thursday 18th to the latest release of version 5, with a view to upgrading to version 6 in the very near future.
In order to minimise any disruption this work will take place from midnight and will take approximately half an hour.
This will incur a short amount of downtime when you will not be able to access your mailbox. However, no emails will be delayed at this time as our unique infrastructure allows us to queue up messages for delivery when the system comes back online.
You shouldn’t need to upgrade to a later version of Zimbra Connector, however the latest version of the Connector is available from our support pages should you need it.
No action is required on your part.
March 11th, 2010
Zimbra Upgrade – update
Upgrade to Zimbra001
We are pleased to report that the overnight upgrade to Zimbra001 was successful and the server is now running version 5.0.22 – the most up-to-date release of Zimbra 5.
More news on Zimbra upgrades to follow shortly.
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