What is POE Anyway? - Good Article

Found a good article today from the Petri Folks. Take a look at this if you are intrested to know more about what POE is..

http://www.petri.co.il/what-is-power-over-ethernet.htm

Again, Thanks for stopping by!

Charles J. Love
Technical Services Manager
Big Sur Technologies, Inc.
http://www.bigsurtech.com/

iPhone 2.0 Supoprts Exchange & GroupWise (with addon)

The iPhone now supports Exchange Active Sync out of the box. For those of you who have Novell GroupWise, never fear - we have a partnership with NotifyLink where for a nonimal fee per year we can setup calendar, email, and contact sync on your new iPhone - If you want more info about that let me know..

The below link is from the Exchange Blog - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/07/11/449196.aspx

Novell to Open up GroupWise (a bit)

This should lead to some interesting things..

Read this interesting post in the NGW List by Dean Lythgoe, director of GroupWise engineering:

(this is a reply to a question on GroupWise API’s)

We realize that there are GroupWise APIs that have lagged far behind. The Client APIs (object api, C3POs and Tokens) and the Admin APIs have not kept up with the features and other functionalities that continue to be developed and exposed in our GroupWise Clients and interfaces.

Bonsai makes some updates to the object API, C3POs and Tokens, but very little to the Admin API. We have been building, as stated several times, a new Admin API. This will be a Web Service and may provide other bindings. However, the Admin API is not scheduled to be released as part of Bonsai. We will be using some of this API in the new Install - the System Creation part begins to utilize this new API.

As we move away from ConsoleOne, we will be using, documenting and exposing this Admin API to 3rd parties. We will do this as soon as possible. We did focus resources in Bonsai in several different areas in the Window, Linux and WebAccess Clients. We also dedicated a lot of time to further developing our SOAP on the POA. We also pushed the Admin API much further during the Bonsai time frame, but we have not been able to finish the Q/A and documentation on the parts that have been developed. We will continue this process during Bonsai SP1, but we have not solidified our plans on when to release the API.

We realize this is not the best position for all of our partners and integrators. We are committed to our API direction and believe that we will deliver a comprehensive API set to cover all of our partners - including the Linux/Mac Client.

We appreciate and recognize the tremendous efforts of our partners who have filled many of these gaps in the mean time. I encourage you to consider these products and expect them to greatly improve as they receive better and better GroupWise API support.

Regards,

Dean

Dean Lythgoe
Director, GroupWise Engineering

Big Sur Technologies Introduces Internet Based Backup Offering

Hi Everyone,

Big Sur Technologies now offers Internet Based Backup. With Big Sur Remote Backup you can now target specific data in your business that is Important to you. With the basic plan, you can be sure that that "Key Data" is replicated somewhere else other than its primary location.

Big Sur is starting to install Big Sur Remote Backup for those customers who have Critical Data on Laptops where we expect users to do their own backups (but they don’t), and for data that is on servers such as Finical Spreadsheets, ACS Accounting Data, or Quickbooks.

Bottom line, with Big Sur Remote Backup, you can be sure your data is always replicated out of the state of Florida to a Tier 3 Datacenter. Can you say that for your Tapes?

Plans for Big Sur Remote Backup start as low as 9.95 a month for 5 GIG’s of storage. If you want to know more information about this or any other offering please call into Big Sur @ 877-7BIGSUR.



Again, Thanks for stopping by!

Charles J. Love
Technical Services Manager
Big Sur Technologies, Inc.
http://www.bigsurtech.com/

Doing things with GroupWise Easier then Outlook - (Article)

Hi Everyone,

You often hear people saying that Microsoft Outlook/Exchange can do this and that, how come GroupWise Cant? - Here is a nice list of things that GroupWise can do that outlook cant :)

http://www.novell.com/communities/node/2651/what-groupwise-has-outlook-doesnt

Again, Thanks for stopping by!

Charles J. Love
Technical Services Manager
Big Sur Technologies, Inc.
http://www.bigsurtech.com/

Novell's Brainshare on Tour Event

HI Everyone,

Thanks to everyone who came out to support us at the Novell Best of Brainshare Event - It was great to see alot of you again.

If you would like to view the slide decks we used, please visit
http://www.novell.com/promo/brainshare.html


Again, Thanks for stopping by!

Charles J. Love
Technical Services Manager
Big Sur Technologies, Inc.
http://www.bigsurtech.com/