Exchange Hosting News: 123Together Hosted Exchange

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

If you are one of those people that always need to have the latest version of software, if half the software installed on your machine is in beta, or if you are just considering upgrading (or already upgraded) then this post is for you.

You may experience performance problems when you are working with items in a large .pst file or in a large .ost file in Outlook 2007. Short version is that if you have large PST or OST files, Outlook hangs, sometimes 10-12 seconds and may reduce your computer’s speed. The cause is “To accommodate new features, Outlook 2007 introduced a new data structure for .pst and .ost files. In this new data structure, the frequency of writing data to the hard disk increases as the number of items in the .pst or .ost files increases.”

More info at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932086

Did you know that you can customize your views in specific folders?  Outlook can help you organize the contents of folders to best suit your needs.  For example, consider view options within the Tasks folder:
 

1.       Click on the Tasks folder on the left hand panel of Outlook.
2.       Click on the View menu then Arrange By > Current View > Customize Current View.
3.       The pop-up menu allows you to change the font or group by fields.
4.       You can change the default view to another view type: Table, Timeline, Card, Day/Week/Month or Icon.
5.      You can also define a new custom view. Click on View > Arrange By > Current View > Define View.
6.       In the Custom View Organizer box, select New.
7.       Create a new view by naming it and selecting the default settings.  Click Accept and your new view is applied to your Tasks folder!

Do your emails contain tasks you need to keep track of and accomplish?  Outlook can help you instantly create appointments and tasks from these emails.  Here’s how:
1.       In your Inbox, left click on an email that contains a task and drag it to the Tasks or Calendar tab on the left hand panel of Outlook.
2.       A new task or appointment is automatically created in the body of the selected email.  You can edit the task details by filling out due dates, priorities, etc.
3.       Click Save and Close in the upper left corner of the email.

Is your Inbox getting full and overcrowded?  Do you have trouble finding important emails quickly?  Outlook can help organize your Inbox by automatically placing incoming emails in specific folders.  Here’s how:
1.       In your Inbox, right click on an email that you would like to be automatically placed into a folder.
2.       From the menu, select Create Rule.
3.       In the Create Rule Box, select the conditions for your rule so that it will apply to the sender, wording, or recipient of the email.
4.       Below the conditions options, select Move e-mail to a folder.
5.       Click on Select Folder to specify where emails with your selected conditions should be automatically stored.  Click OK.
6.       A Success box will pop up. Select Run this rule now to apply your rule to other messages already in your inbox.  Or, click OK and your rule will apply to all incoming emails in the future. 

Increase your knowledge of Outlook and improve your email efficiency! Whether you’re new to Outlook or an experienced user, here are some quick Outlook tips geared towards your experience level:

Automatically Sort Incoming Emails

Is your Inbox getting full and overcrowded? Do you have trouble finding important emails quickly? Outlook can help organize your Inbox by automatically placing incoming emails in specific folders. Here’s how:

1. In your Inbox, right click on an email that you would like to be automatically placed into a folder.
2. From the menu, select Create Rule.
3. In the Create Rule Box, select the conditions for your rule so that it will apply to the sender, wording, or recipient of the email.
4. Below the conditions options, select Move e-mail to a folder.
5. Click on Select Folder to specify where emails with your selected conditions should be automatically stored. Click OK.
6. A Success box will pop up. Select Run this rule now to apply your rule to other messages already in your inbox. Or, click OK and your rule will apply to all incoming emails in the future.

Create Tasks from Emails

Do your emails contain tasks you need to keep track of and accomplish? Outlook can help you instantly create appointments and tasks from these emails. Here’s how:

1. In your Inbox, left click on an email that contains a task and drag it to the Tasks or Calendar tab on the left hand panel of Outlook.
2. A new task or appointment is automatically created in the body of the selected email. You can edit the task details by filling out due dates, priorities, etc.
3. Click Save and Close in the upper left corner of the email.

Customize Folder Views

Did you know that you can customize your views in specific folders? Outlook can help you organize the contents of folders to best suit your needs. For example, consider view options within the Tasks folder:

1. Click on the Tasks folder on the left hand panel of Outlook.
2. Click on the View menu then Arrange By > Current View > Customize Current View.
3. The pop-up menu allows you to change the font or group by fields.
4. You can change the default view to another view type: Table, Timeline, Card, Day/Week/Month or Icon.
5. You can also define a new custom view. Click on View > Arrange By > Current View > Define View.
6. In the Custom View Organizer box, select New.
7. Create a new view by naming it and selecting the default settings. Click Accept and your new view is applied to your Tasks folder!

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.

During the month of January we are offering a 50% discount off of the server setup fees for all new dedicated servers. To qualify for this discount we must receive your signed contract and initial payment no later than the close of business on January 31, 2007.

Contract and initial payment must be received no later
than the close of business on January 31, 2007 

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