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French Administration boosts open source in the Public Sector | Blog

During the Open Source Experience event in Paris, the Minister of Transformation and Civil Service Amélie de Montchalin unveiled the action plan to increase Open Source software usage among the PA....
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How Do Antispam and Antivirus Protection Works in Zimbra OSE? | Zimbra

These days the world is dealing with a different kind of threat. You may have heard the term called “Mail borne threat”. Usually a network/system administrator is concerned about end...
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Zextras announces Carbonio, an open-source email and collaboration software | Blog

Press Release Paris and Milan, November 9, 2021 – Zextras announces Carbonio, the first open-source solution for email and collaboration targeted to the growing segment of organizations with a responsible...
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A Crucial Choice of Email Servers: Cloud-based vs. On-premises | Blog

A Brief History of Email Today, we all use emails on a day-to-day basis and consider them to be one of the most useful and popular services on the internet....
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Roots of Cloud Computing and Data Privacy Concerns | Blog

Cloud computing is getting more and more popular due to allowing clients to access computing services conveniently through the Internet. Here we can consider the internet as the medium to...
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Meeting Rooms

Meeting rooms are one of the most important features of our communication system. This functionality greatly improves the way users communicate with their colleagues. Here you can find a practical...
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Zextras Suite 3.7.0 | Blog

Zextras Suite 3.7.0 has been released for Zimbra. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite for Zimbra by logging into their account on...
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Best Authentication Methods for Zimbra – System Administrators’ Most Requested Features | Zimbra

Zimbra OSE is a complete email solution. It offers lots of customization compared to G Suit and M365. Still, it needs some attention from the system admins perspective to make...
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External Content Extractor for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra

Data extraction is the process of collecting unstructured data of various types from numerous different sources. Much of this data can be unorganized or of non-standard structure, but still, using...
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Zimbra OSE Backing Up And Restoring Process | Zimbra

In my future series of articles onmost requested features by Zimbra admins, I will discuss the details about the advantage and disadvantages of various manually created backup and restoration process...
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Zextras Suite 3.6.0 | Blog

Zextras Suite 3.6.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an...
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Meet Zextras at Open Source Experience 2021 | Event | Blog

We're getting ready for the Open Source Experience event in Paris where we will disclose big news!! Meeting with the European open source community means new opportunities to grow as a technical team and open-source...
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Advanced Administrative Tools for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra

Administrative tools is the collective name for several advanced tools in Zextras suite that facilitates a lot of tasks for Zimbra system administrators. These tools cover a wide range of...
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Single Item Restore for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra

Restoring only a single item is one of the most common problems an administrator faces. It can easily take the administrator half a day to restore the whole account and...
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Zextras Storage Management Part 3 – Let’s Calculate Your Savings | Blog

This is the last part of this three-part article on how the Zextras storage management system also known as Powerstore reduces your storage costs. Here you'll learn how you can...
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Zextras Storage Management Part 2 – These Features Save Your Money | Blog

This is the second part of this three-part article on how the Zextras storage management system also known as Powerstore reduces your storage costs. Here you'll learn about different features...
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Zextras Storage Management Part 1 – More Than Meets the Eyes | Blog

Zextras Suite comes with a very powerful storage management system also known as Powerstore in the Zextras documentations. In this three-part article, you'll learn how the Zextras storage management system...
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Monitoring Zextras Docs using Prometheus | Zimbra

Collect and correctly display metrics is the best (sometimes the only) way to understand how single software components or the entire infrastructure is working and performing. You can use the...
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Zextras Suite 3.5.0 | Blog

Zextras Suite 3.5.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an...
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Centralized Storage for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra

Centralized storage drastically improves mailbox move speed and facilitates data management. This positive impact on time and resources is even more evident in large-scale infrastructures. What Is Centralized Storage Centralized...
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Advanced Volume Operations for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra

Zextras suite storage management system or Powerstore provides Zimbra users with four very useful volume operations which are only available through the CLI to avoid any volume management errors. These...
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How we solved the issue of updating Zimbra 9 | Zimbra

So, finally, we can provide an updated (latest patch) version of Zimbra 9.0! Go ahead to read why we were able to do that and how to get it. Why...
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Items Deduplication and File Compression for Zimbra with Zextras Suite | Zimbra

Zextras suite item deduplication and file compression allow you to save disk space by compressing files and storing only one copy of each item. It will save you a lot...
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Digital Transformation & Change Management – Email Clients Shortcomings | Blog

This is the first article of the series Digital Transformation & Change Management. In this article, we will talk about email clients' differences and in particular some of their insufficiencies...
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Zextras awarded as the top collaboration solution provider by CIO Review Europe | Blog

We're glad to announce CIO Review Europe listed Zextras among the top-ten collaboration solution providers in Europe. "This great recognition tells us we're going in the right direction. We'll keep...
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Zextras Suite 3.4.0 | Blog

Zextras Suite 3.4.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an...
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Zextras Suite Advanced Backup and Restore System for Zimbra | Blog

I bet you as a Zimbra system administrator can easily recall hundreds of times you needed to restore some lost data. Generally, two very common circumstances can badly corner a...
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Load Balancing Overview | Zimbra

With this article we want to go over a general overview of load balancing. We're going to get a better understanding of what it is, how it works, and what...
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Zextras Suite 3.3.0 | Blog

Zextras Suite 3.3.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an...
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SpamAssassin | Zimbra

Regarding spam protection strategies in Zimbra, a mention deserves SpamAssassin, an Open Source anti-spam platform that can provide system administrators with a filter that can classify emails and block spam....
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Hypervisor | Zimbra

Speaking about Virtual Machines, a topic we've covered in a series of articles related to networking, it's inevitable to come across Hypervisors. In this article we are going to see...
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Zimbra on Mobile Devices | Zimbra

Nowadays, the role of smartphones and various mobile devices is increasingly relevant even in the business world. If initially we could think of the phone as a simple communication tool,...
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Firewall ports in Zimbra | Zimbra

One of the main weapons of modern cybercriminals is the port scanner, thanks to which they find servers that are susceptible to certain vulnerabilities and then attack them. That is...
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How to setup External Active Directory Authentication | Zimbra

With this article we are going to see how to configure, through the administrative interface, the external authentication to Active Directory in Zimbra. Configuration After logging in to the AdminUI,...
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How to install and update Let’s encrypt for Zimbra | Zimbra

Using certificates to secure your data and mail traffic is something that is extremely important. We have seen, in the " Zimbra SSL/TLS Commercial Certificate " article, how they work...
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Zimbra Collaboration Suite and Anti-Phishing | Zimbra

Let's get back to dealing with security and especially email security, going to address a delicate and extremely important topic like Phishing and see what measures can be taken in...
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Enterprise Security black, white and gray lists | Zimbra

Zimbra incorporates a spam filter that allows you to reliably protect your company's mail from receiving infected messages that are not related to business correspondence. We've seen how to manage...
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Zimbra Black List and White List | Zimbra

Speaking of email security and spam, there are many factors to consider as we have seen in the incoming and outgoing mail protection best practices articles. Surely, however, we can...
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Cloud or Local Server. Which is best solution for Zimbra Deployment? | Zimbra

Today we are going to cover an interesting topic that every company faces when choosing Zimbra Collaboration Suite, namely which is the best choice for its implementation. Cloud or Local...
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Zextras Implementation Results for SaaS Provider | Zimbra

In this article, we show you a real-world case study on the implementation of Zimbra Open Source Edition and Zextras Suite for a European SaaS service provider that specializes in...
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Improve the security using Zextras 2FA | Zimbra

Security is not an option. Unfortunately, many companies meet security only after an attack has been received, or when they have to limit the damages of a data breach. Security...
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How to integrate Zimbra Collaboration Suite with Active Directory | Zimbra

Many companies already have an established IT infrastructure where a tool such as Microsoft Active Directory is often used to manage and authenticate users. When these realities plan the implementation...
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How to transfer mail from your mail server to Zimbra? | Zimbra

“You have to run as fast just to stay in the same place” - this phrase from Lewis Carroll can be safely applied to the work of IT specialists, because trends in the...
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Setting up a password security policy in Zimbra

Along with encrypting emails and using digital signatures, one of the most effective and low-cost ways to protect email from hacking is a competent password security policy. Passwords written on pieces...
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Zextras Suite 3.2.0 | Blog

Zextras Suite 3.2.0 has been released. Here are all the new and updated features. Customers can upgrade the Zextras Suite by logging into their account on our website in an accessible...
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Zimbra 9 Open Source Edition Build by Zextras: First Time Installation | Zimbra

The Zimbra 9 OSE built by Zextras, is based on Zimbra's official repositories. In this article, you will learn more about this build, and its installation for the first time....
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Zextras Released Its Own Build of Zimbra 9 Open Source Edition | Blog

 In 2020 Zextras released its own build for the popular Zimbra mail server. This build is based on Zimbra's official repositories after discovering that there would be no official build for...
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Calculate your ROI thanks to Zextras Storage Management | Blog

Zextras Suite storage management system, also known as Powerstore, offers many features for Zimbra that no third-party alternatives come even close to their quality. Although the unique advantages of Zextras...
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Why Zextras Suite is a Greener Solution | Blog

Using information technologies has a bad reputation of contributing to environmental problems. Computers and any IT infrastructure consume significant amounts of electricity, which is increasing day by day, contributing to...
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What is Zimbra | Zimbra

Zimbra is an open-source software product for automating and simplifying collaboration between any workgroup, whether public or private. Zimbra, with an active developer community and global partner network, is the...
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