Exchange Hosting News: 123Together Hosted Exchange

Burlington, MA, May 22, 2007 – 123Together.com, the leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions such as Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, has recently rolled out additional automation tools which address the needs of mid-market companies, enabling them to easily utilize the latest e-mail and collaboration technology in a hosted manner.

Medium-sized businesses are struggling to fulfill the growing storage and technology needs of their users. In-house IT management has become extremely difficult because of the high penetration of ever-changing two-way smart phones, user demands for larger mailboxes and new products like Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - which requires new 64-bit hardware and features a completely redesigned management interface.

The tools and processes that 123Together.com has developed provide a turnkey alternative.  “Our exclusive suite of tools makes the lives of all IT professionals easier when managing and provisioning Exchange Server in a hosted environment,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of 123Together.com.  “Typically, mid-sized companies have limited resources making growing, maintaining and monitoring systems, software, networking and storage gear a significant challenge and an impediment to future growth. Our hosted platform allows companies to easily scale as their messaging requirements increase - without having to make investments in IT, personnel or other resources. Additionally, our 100% uptime SLA allows them to hold us accountable.”

Easy Migration Processes
123Together.com allows organizations to migrate their mailboxes and data as quickly or gradually as needed and provides customizable processes for both scenarios. Being able to transition employees’ e-mail at a rate that the organization can easily absorb is key to making the transition as simple and painless as possible.

Bulk Export and Import
123Together.com is the only Hosted Microsoft Exchange provider to offer bulk export and import tools. In-house solutions and other Exchange hosting providers typically require customers to create one mailbox at a time.  123Together.com’s industry exclusive Active Directory Export and Bulk Spreadsheet Import tool allows for quick creation of all of an organization’s mailboxes, contacts, and distribution lists. 

Policy-Based Controls
Exchange Server is typically managed one user at a time. For its larger customers, 123Together.com offers Policy-Based Controls where settings on groups of users can be changed collectively with one action.  These settings include limits on access mechanisms, advanced settings, as well as mailbox quotas. Customers can have mailboxes as large as 15GB.

Password Policies
123Together.com allows customers to control the password policies for their users. Administrators are able to control the type of characters which must be included, password expiration as well as other settings which ensure that their users’ passwords are in compliance with their corporate policies.

Backups and Archiving
An organization’s IT staff can also control the frequency and storage of their backups. 123Together.com ensures that backups function correctly and tests them regularly to ensure that data can be restored if necessary. For organizations which comply with Sarbanes-Oxley data retention laws and have special archiving needs for compliance, litigation and quick retrieval, being able to control data backup and retention is a key benefit in choosing a Hosted Microsoft Exchange solution from 123Together.com.

Employee E-mail Setup
123Together.com has developed its own Outlook Auto Setup Tool, which allows IT professionals to set up new employees with the most appropriate Microsoft Office Outlook and Exchange Server configuration, for that desktop, in just a few clicks.

About 123Together.com
Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, 123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a leading provider of hosted enterprise-class messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Server.  Among its offerings are shared and dedicated Microsoft Exchange Server hosting, shared and dedicated Windows SharePoint Services v3.0, full mobile availability for BlackBerry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone and Windows Mobile handhelds; and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.  123Together.com offers Exchange customers free Outlook 2007, 24×7 U.S.-based technical support, advanced spam and virus filtering, and a 100 percent uptime guarantee for dedicated servers.  A 30-day no obligation trial is available.  Additional information can be found at www.123Together.com.* - The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact:
Al Maguire
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x641
am@123together.com  

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Burlington, MA, April 10, 2007 -123Together.com, a leading provider of Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Windows SharePoint Services, announced today it is now offering Hosted Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, a significant upgrade of the industry leading platform for e-mail, mobility and collaboration.  Designed to meet all of an organization’s unique messaging needs, Exchange Server 2007 is immediately available and accessible to small and medium businesses through a hosted environment thanks to 123Together.com and its Fortune 500 infrastructure.

123Together.com is the first provider to bring Hosted Exchange 2007 to market using the Microsoft® Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 4.0 - the only platform that Microsoft has designed, tested and validated for Exchange Server hosting.  123Together.com is the first and only Exchange Hosting provider to have implemented Microsoft’s extensive design for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 hosting so that SMBs can start using it today.

Benefits of 123Together.com’s Exchange Hosting

123Together.com empowers SMBs to have the same resource as most Fortune 500 companies for three main benefits:
1) anywhere, anytime access to their full Microsoft Outlook data from any computer or mobile device
2) increase productivity via calendar sharing and collaboration
3) peace of mind knowing that experts are maintaining, updating, and securing the system continuously.

“We are able to provide the power of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to SMBs. Companies that normally could not even consider implementing Exchange Server 2007 in-house can now sign up and start using it immediately - no need to purchase new 64bit servers, retrain administrators or hire consultants. We are also seeing mid-market companies show more interest in outsourcing their messaging and collaboration and having it managed by Exchange experts,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of 123Together.com.  Additionally, Microsoft has designed Exchange Server 2007 for larger mailbox sizes. Recognizing that many customers use their Microsoft Outlook as a virtual filing cabinet and are too busy to clean their mailbox on a regular basis, 123Together.com has increased the maximum mailbox size by 50% to an industry leading 15GB for Exchange Server 2007 hosting.

Why Hosted Exchange instead of in-house?

Implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in-house for most SMBs does not make sense from both an ROI and an availability perspective. For organizations currently running a previous version of Exchange Server, upgrading to the latest version will typically be very expensive as they must purchase new 64bit hardware and existing Exchange administrators must be retrained due to significant changes in the way Exchange Server is installed and administered.

However, it is after the initial installation that the majority of expenses are incurred in maintaining a mission critical application such as Microsoft Exchange Server. The in-house installation requires spare storage and servers as well as 24×7 proactive monitoring to ensure uptime.

“Exchange Server 2007 requires companies to make a large investment of multiple servers and re-training of personnel.  It is much less costly and time consuming to outsource your Exchange hosting needs to 123Together.com,” added Agarwal.

About 123Together.com
123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps small and medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server and Windows SharePoint Services.  With over 9 years of hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Microsoft Exchange Hosting.

With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com is the leader in providing Mission Critical E-mail(â„¢)to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies around the world all with flexible hosting options. These include shared and dedicated server hosting, mobile accessibility for Blackberry, Treo, and Windows Mobile handhelds as well as the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

123Together.com offers free Outlook 2007, 24×7 U.S.-based tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, and continuous monitoring.  123Together.com also offers a 30-day trial.
Al Maguire
123Together
781-273-6245 x641
amaguire@123together.com

BURLINGTON, Mass. - March 6, 2007 - 123Together.com, the leading provider of Hosted Microsoft Exchange, today announced that it is now offering a total of 40 Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 application templates.  Up until February 26th, only 20 templates were available by Microsoft. Adding these additional 20 templates increases usability of Sharepoint v3 for their customers. 123Together.com is the first Hosted Exchange messaging and collaboration provider to provide the full complement of application templates to their users. 

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 is the premiere work force collaboration tool in the market today.  Windows SharePoint Services is used to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity providing tools for collaboration and data management.

Windows SharePoint application templates are out-of-the-box add-on solutions that address specific needs of different areas of the organization.  Application templates provide all the tools needed for the specific process but are still easily customized to more efficiently fit with the business workflow.  Some of the newest application templates offered by 123Together.com and Microsoft are:

Event Planning - The Event Planning application template helps teams organize events efficiently through the use of online registration, schedules, communication, and feedback. Role-based dashboards offer specific information for various event members such as speaker, guest, staff, vendor, delegate, and attendee home pages.

Sales Lead Pipeline - The Sales Lead Pipeline application template helps teams manage the sales pipeline by tracking leads, opportunities, contacts, and accounts. Through role-based dashboards, team members can track sales information, assign open opportunities and gain visibility into the status of overall leads entered into the application template.

Timecard Management - The Timecard Management application template helps teams track hours spent working on various projects. The site enables team members to ‘punch in’ on a particular project and ‘punch out’ when they cease work. The system automatically generates the time worked by project, and can show managers who is working on a particular project, total hours versus budgeted time and the details of who worked on a each project entered into the site.

Equity Research - The Equity Research application template helps teams collaborate on researching stocks and other equities. It provides a central location for teams to store documents, post links, track news, and hold discussions related to the equities tracked by the site.

“Our Hosted Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a very important and fast growing product offering for us,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of 123Together.com.  “It’s very important to us that we provide the most up to date software add-ons and patches.  The newest application templates bring the total of templates available through 123Together.com to 40, which provides our customers with an application template for just about any situation and with development of more application templates currently ongoing, we will continue to provide these important tools to our customers.”

Recently, 123Together.com became the first to offer Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 and with today’s release, they continue to be the first company to offer these important services.
 
About 123Together.com
123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps small & medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server.  With over 9 years of hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Microsoft Exchange Hosting today.

With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com is the leader in providing Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies - around the world all with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

123Together.com.com offers free Outlook 2007, 24×7 tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, Virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, SharePoint, and continuous monitoring.  123Together.com also offers a 30-day trial.

Al Maguire
123Together
781-273-6245 x641
amaguire@123together.com

BURLINGTON, Mass. - February 2, 2007 - 123Together.com, the leading provider of Hosted Microsoft Exchange, today announced that it is now offering 20 new Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 application templates.  123Together.com is the first Hosted Exchange messaging and collaboration provider to provide these important tools to their Hosted WSS users. 

Windows SharePoint templates are out-of-the-box customized web site templates that address the needs and requirements of specific business processes and workflows.  They allow for the easy customization of 123Together.com’s Hosted Windows SharePoint services to various business situations.

Even though Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 is a powerful standalone tool, application templates can be plugged in to help customize for specific situations such as:

The Competitive Analysis Site - The Competitive Analysis Site application template helps individuals and teams organize competitive information.  The site provides useful document templates helping users perform useful competitive analysis techniques. Links to industry, company and product news can also be included making the site the central location for all industry and competitive news and information.

The Employee Activities Site - The Employee Activities Site application template helps manage the creation and attendance of events for employees. Users can submit event profiles and create event calendar items while other employees use the site to sign up as well as track their full activities list.

The Employee Self-Service Benefits Site - The Employee Self-Service Benefits application template provides a location to inform employees about available benefits as well as enabling them to enroll for each benefit.

The Sports League Site - The Sports League application template helps an intra-company league administrator manage a sports league. The site tracks team information, players, captains and scheduled team activities (including off-field activities). Team members can enter in game results and perform analysis at a team, game or individual player level. The site also enables discussions between league members through a League Discussion board.

Details of the remaining Hosted WSS templates are available at http://www.123together.com/Windows_SharePoint_Services_v3.xhtml.

“We are proud to again be the first to market again with another SharePoint service,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of 123Together.com, “and being the first to offer the latest version of software is one of the things that 123Together.com has become known for.  SharePoint is already one of our most popular services and we strive to be able to provide our users with the tools they need to further integrate SharePoint into their business workflow.”

Recently, 123Together.com became the first to offer Hosted Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 and with today’s release, they continue to be the first company to offer these important services.
 
About 123Together.com
123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps small & medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server.  With over 9 years of hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Microsoft Exchange Hosting today.

With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com is the leader in providing Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies - around the world all with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

123Together.com.com offers free Outlook 2007, 24×7 tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, Virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, SharePoint, and continuous monitoring.  123Together.com also offers a 30-day trial.

Al Maguire
123together
781-273-6245 x641
amaguire@123together.com

Migrating to 123Together Hosted Exchange Service is stress-free!  You can migrate at your own pace.  We offer a Split-Domain solution.  For our Dedicated Server clients, it is included in the contracted fee.  For our Shared Server clients, there is a one-time $20 fee.

Migrating to any service, can prove tricky; mail loss, bounce back messages when emailing users at your domain sitting on the old mail server, mistakes due to rushing, etc…

When you migrate to another server environment, typically, you are not able to email anyone @YourDomain.com that is not on the new Exchange server. The cause is that the new system thinks that it is the authoritative email server for your domain, YourDomain.com. So, when it gets an email addressed to a user@YourDomain.com that does not exist yet, on the new system, it rejects it - it doesn’t know about your other mail server.

We can reconfigure your domain so that our Exchange server redirects all unresolved email addresses @YourDomain.com to your current mail server, instead of rejecting it.  This is a seamless solution, and takes the pressure off of your IT Staff during migration.

If you are an existing new customer and want to implement this solution, contact Support@123Together.com

If you are not yet a customer, and are still investigating your options, feel free to contact sales@123Together.com for more information.

BURLINGTON, Mass.–123Together.com, the leading provider of Hosted Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and CRM services is now offering a complimentary version of Microsoft Outlook 2007 to every user of the company’s Exchange Hosting service. Outlook 2007 is the latest release in Microsoft’s long line of award-winning e-mail, messaging and collaboration clients. This version includes many new features and improvements designed to further improve productivity.

Outlook is the most widely used e-mail software in the world with hundreds of millions of mailboxes in use. With Outlook 2007 and Hosted Microsoft Exchange from 123Together.com, the daily productivity of office workers everywhere can be significantly improved. Outlook 2007 has major enhancements over the previous version, Outlook 2003, ranging from deeper integration with the latest versions of Exchange Server, SharePoint and CRM (all of which are provided as hosted services by 123Together.com), as well as improvements in calendaring, collaboration and information management.

“Outlook 2007 is a powerful tool that allows people to improve their productivity, manage their information and organize their time,” said Ravi Agarwal, chief executive officer of 123Together.com. “Microsoft has done a great job of integrating Outlook 2007 with Exchange Server, SharePoint as well as Dynamics CRM so that users can easily access the information that drives their business through a familiar and effective interface. Outlook 2007 brings powerful software options to the SMB marketplace, one that has traditionally been unable to obtain this level of integration and collaboration.”

Some of the major features and enhancements included in Outlook 2007 include:

Advanced searching capabilities - The new Instant Search tool allows users to not only conduct keyword searches of their Outlook 2007 messages but also within e-mail attachments.

Centralized communication management - Users can now read and manage Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and blogs right from within Outlook 2007. This allows users to organize and manage more of the information they use on a daily basis from one central location.

Mobile device integration - Outlook Mobile Service (OMS) provides the ability to send and receive text and picture messages between Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. OMS also enables users to forward Outlook e-mail, contacts, appointments, and tasks to themselves or other people as text messages. This capability, along with 123Together.com’s two-way wireless sync services for the BlackBerry, Good Messaging and Windows Mobile services, ensures that users will always have the most current information whenever or wherever they need it.

Less junk mail and improved phishing protection - To help protect users from divulging personal information to a threatening Web site, Outlook 2007 has an improved junk e-mail filter and has added new features that disable links and warn users about threatening content within an e-mail message. These issues are amplified in a corporate environment and the combination of the enhanced Outlook 2007 filters along with the free anti-virus and anti-spam services provided by 123Together.com’s Hosted Exchange services help ensure comprehensive coverage and protection.

Integration with SharePoint 2007 - Users can connect and access SharePoint 2007 documents, calendars, contacts, tasks, and other information through Outlook 2007, giving them a central place to manage information. Because 123Together.com provides hosting for both Exchange and SharePoint, customers able to get the benefits of both services without performing backups, upgrades and all the other tasks required for creating a 24×7 environment for their users.

“The capabilities of Outlook 2007 are beyond what people have grown accustomed to,” continued Agarwal, “and customers have responded very positively to our providing them with the newest version. Helping our customers understand, stay current and apply new technology to their business challenges is just one of the benefits we provide.”

About 123Together.com

123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps small & medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server. With over 9 years of hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Microsoft Exchange Hosting today.

With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com is the leader in providing Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies - around the world all with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

123Together.com.com offers free Outlook 2007, 24×7 tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, Virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, SharePoint, and continuous monitoring. 123Together.com also offers a 30-day trial.
For more information please contact:

Al Maguire
Marketing Manager
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x641
am@123Together.com
www.123Together.com

 

Burlington, MA, December 19, 2006 - 123Together.com today announced that they have partnered with the premiere SPAM filtering service in the industry.  Postini is the global leader in integrated message management, providing more than 35,000 businesses worldwide with on-demand services that protect, manage, improve compliance, reduce risk and increase productivity from email, instant messaging (IM) and the web.

Today more than 85% of all electronic mail traffic on the Internet would be considered SPAM. Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are constantly assaulted from a variety of increasingly sophisticated attacks from hackers, spammers, and phishers. These days, no longer can a small business afford to be without top-of-the-line SPAM filtering.  The fact of the matter is that if your business uses email, you will be targeted by spammers.

“We have been providing a variety of additional services beyond our core business of Exchange Hosting.” says Ravi Agarwal, 123Together.com’s CEO.  “Postini SPAM filtering gives us yet another value-added service that our customers need to effectively and efficiently maintain their business online.  E-mail is a mission critical part of daily business for our customers and having the best SPAM filtering will ensure that SPAM will not be a problem.”

About 123Together.com
123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps small & medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server.  With over 9 years of Exchange Hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Exchange Hosting today.

With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com is the leader in providing Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies - around the world all with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

123Together.com.com offers free Outlook 2003, 24×7 tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, Virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, SharePoint, and continuous monitoring.  123Together.com offers 30-day trial.

For more information please contact:

Al Maguire
Marketing Manager
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x641
am@123Together.com
www.123Together.com
 

Burlington, MA November 21, 2006 - 123Together.com, a leading Exchange Hosting provider, announced the new product offering of Hosted SharePoint 2007.  In addition to Hosted Private Label Exchange, SPAM filtering, Dynamics CRM, and archiving, SharePoint 2007 will round out the 123Together.com product offering.

“There are dozens of new and improved features in SharePoint 2007.  There is finally the ability to broadcast information with blogs and capture community knowledge with wikis,” said Ravi Agarwal, CEO of 123Together.com.  “That’s just the tip of the iceberg.  The new feature set in SharePoint 2007 is a vast improvement over the previous version.  It is much more powerful and will allow our end-users the chance to integrate more of their business through the tool.  SharePoint 2007 is very new and we are one of the few companies offering it today, which gives our partners a distinct competitive advantage selling SharePoint Services.”

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile Windows Server technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to help increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity.  123Together.com allows their partners to provide a Hosted version of SharePoint 2007 to their customers in a completely private labeled environment.

About 123Together.com
123Together.com, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, helps small & medium-sized businesses leverage the power of Microsoft Exchange Server.  With over 9 years of Exchange Hosting industry experience, 123Together.com is one of the largest providers of Exchange Hosting today.
With up to a 100% uptime guarantee, 123Together.com is the leader in providing Mission Critical E-mail to companies such as banks, airlines, pharmaceuticals, and public companies - around the world all with flexible hosting options including shared and dedicated server hosting, full mobile availability for Blackberry, Treo, PocketPC, SmartPhone, and Windows Mobile handhelds, and the ability to resell the service completely white labeled.

123Together.com.com offers free Outlook 2003, 24×7 tech support, advanced SPAM filtering, Virus scanning, unlimited Public Folders, RPC over HTTP(S), VPN, Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access (OMA), web-based administration, daily backups, SharePoint, and continuous monitoring.  123Together.com offers 30-day trial.

Al Maguire
Marketing Manager
123Together.com
781-273-6245 x641
am@123Together.com
www.123Together.com