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Thank you so much for putting up with us over the past three months as we've virtually rewritten what ExchangeDefender is and how it works. Over the next 30 days we will be enabling all these features will become manageable – we need your feedback. Your patience and your loyalty will not go without notice, if you scroll down you'll see we're giving a very nice present to all of our customers and partners. The purpose of this email is to inform you of the changes to ExchangeDefender and how they will be implemented over the next 30 days. These improvements fit into four categories and were made 100% based on user and partner feedback: user experience, administrative functionality, centralized (MSP) control and core infrastructure. **User Experience** The user experience of ExchangeDefender will be changing only slightly because we do recognize how sensitive non-IT users are to interface changes. The behavior, location and use of ExchangeDefender will not change to the point that they will require re-training. > \- Whitelists, policies and trusts are now implemented in realtime via SQL > > \- Ability to reassign quarantine management to another user > > \- Ability to request a resend of daily report > > \- Ability to search the quarantine > > \- Ability to mark reviewed messages so only unread counts show > > \- Ability to receive multiple daily reports > > \- Ability to adjust the time zone so the times in quarantines and reports reflect users local region > > \- Ability to mass-release multiple messages from the quarantine > > \- Ability to view messages over the past 7 days in the Live Quarantine even if the Exchange server is down > > \- Paging support to limit the number of messages shown on the screen **Administrative Functionality** Administrative functionality will allow the domain administrator to designate a "SPAM Czar" who can be in charge of reviewing the organizations quarantines. Administrator will also have access to make all the changes necessary in realtime. Additionally, the administrator will be: > \- Able to add users from the ExchangeDefender control panel > > \- Resend welcome/activation messages > > \- Reset passwords, policies, settings for a particular user > > \- Access all quarantines, messages, archives for a particular user > > \- Test delivery with internal, external and remote facilities to help troubleshoot mail delivery times > > \- Ability to establish file level attachment policy settings (still no .exe's sorry; but you can rename them) > > \- Statistical breakdown of daily attack profiles and SPAM counts > > \- Ability to audit outgoing mail and enforce outbound policies **Centralized (MSP) Control** Perhaps the most demanded feature set by a long shot. ExchangeDefender was not originally designed to be reseller friendly, it was designed to protect users from exploits and time consuming SPAM on our own servers. As the product has grown so has its reseller base and we're providing the management interface you've asked us for: > \- Ability to self-provision accounts by providing domain, ip, policies and user dumps > > \- Ability to consolidate entire ExchangeDefender network management under one screen > > \- Ability to receive realtime billing, user count and statistical breakdowns > > \- Ability to access any information available for every other screen (user & administrator) > > \- Ability to provide executive reports > > \- Ability to retrieve data in realtime for internal reporting systems (web service for Kaseya, LPI, Connectwise integration) > > \- Branding support for the portal, daily report emails and activation messages. **Core Infrastructure & Training** The most significant changes to the core infrastructure is the way we manage, deploy and support the network. In the past ExchangeDefender nodes had local configuration databases that were generated on-the-fly and loaded at preset intervals. The new ExchangeDefender v3 setup is directly driven by a SQL database and all policies, settings and services are driven by a distributed database. The most significant improvement is the addition of Live Archive. The live archive gives your users the ability to access their email through a web based interface hosted at Own Web Now Corp - even while the target mail server may be down. This radically transforms ExchangeDefender from a protection system to a business continuity tool. The messages are spooled both on the ExchangeDefender node and a Live Archive system. This way if the server goes down your users will be able to access mail through a secure (and highly auditable) webmail client and the original message will still sit in the queue waiting for delivery to the target mail server. When that mail server does come up the messages will be delivered but your users would have had the option of continuing to write, read and respond to email while you were down preserving company identity and communication channel. The best part of this is that even though the pricing for ExchangeDefender will be changing, our current active partners will get this feature free of charge and will be grandfathered at the current pricing model even for the future clients that are added to the service. **Changes** All of these changes are influenced by our partners and end users. As such, we want to make sure that we have taken your feedback in account properly and that the changes are implemented in a manner that is most beneficial to our users. As such, we will be deploying one feature at a time, allowing you to use it for a few days, taking feedback and adjusting the behavior and look of the system for everyone's benefit. Later tonight you will receive an invitation to participate in the design of ExchangeDefender v3, we welcome your feedback. We expect the entire deployment to be complete in less than 30 days as 99% of the code is already written, we just want to make sure it does what you need it to do. Additionally, we will be investing in the training resources for ExchangeDefender. While half of the security can easily be done by ExchangeDefender alone, the other half consists of properly training the user and the administrator. We will be releasing series of white papers and web video lessons that will help people get started with ExchangeDefender. This will help free you time and make ExchangeDefender deployments less stressful. In closing, ExchangeDefender v3 is a drastically different product from v2. It is perhaps the most ambitious effort to provide SMB with a reliable and distributed communication system that leaves the end user in control while providing the security blanket of a large network. I thank you for all your patience with us, thank you for all your money, and hope we continue to deliver the services you've come to expect from us. 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