Our best practices come from customer feedback.  See the top tips below:
1. Ensure that Office 2003/2007 is fully patched and the OS you are running (either Windows Vista or XP) is fully patched. This really resolves a great number of problems.
2. The user account used for the installation of MailShadow Desktop Edition must have local […]

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Tyrone Pike, CEO of Cemaphore Systems, was recently interviewed by Robert Scoble of Scobleizer TV.  Viewers participated in a live, interactive demo of the new MailShadow Server Edition solution which can sync and migrate 1000’s of mailboxes.   Watch how MailShadow enables on-premises and online Exchange users to co-exist and share resources—whether booking conference rooms or seeing free/busy […]

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As CTO for Cemaphore Systems, I frequently talk to customers about how to overcome the challenges of migrating from one version of Exchange to another.  We just announced MailShadow Server Edition that will allow you to synchronize/migrate your Exchange 2003 (or 2000) mailboxes to Exchange 2007 mailboxes cross-forest with little user downtime beyond 1) shutting […]

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MailShadowG is a single user Outlook Add-in that installs in 5 minutes with message content protection commencing immediately.
It’s helpful to note that MailShadowG installs quickly and has a small footprint on the desktop. The install package is under 10 Mb and the RAM footprint is typically under 50Mbytes when running, with CPU consumption under […]

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Both Outlook and Google have worked to develop a reputation for excelling in their industry: Outlook is known for it’s ubiquity in business as being “the” client for messaging and business critical information; Google is a search engine powerhouse online.
So, why not use the functionality of both to enable better business practices and simplify your […]

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A recent article in The Processor confirms a position we hold strongly: e-mail management – including archiving, server maintenance and upgrades and storage—is a necessary evil. Every company needs to meet this basic requirement—but the smaller the company, the more onerous the logistics of owning and maintaining an entire e-mail infrastructure of their own.

We love […]

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MailShadowG enables safe, sound migration from Exchange to Google or Google to Exchange

Here’s another interesting tidbit about MailShadowG: it permits users to sync data from their Google account to Outlook/Exchange and vice versa, giving users the ultimate e-mail freedom of choice. Users can move between both worlds, run both environments concurrently, or can migrate from […]

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MailShadowG provides disconnected access to Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Calendar by caching Google content in Outlook for offline operations
Checking e-mail requires Internet access; writing e-mail doesn’t. Unfortunately, with web-based e-mail services you are severely limited in responding to e-mails – unless you want to write a bunch of word documents, then do a cut […]

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MailShadowG maintains full e-mail continuity to Outlook even when Exchange is unavailable.

We’ve all experienced the frustration of losing Outlook connectivity because the Exchange server is unavailable, or has gone down. We’ve come to accept it as one of the frustrating facts of doing business.

Just one case in point – an event manager recently posted a […]

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Managing one address book is challenging enough, but keeping your contacts’ information in various locations only compounds the problem. And, it’s not likely you’ll have just work contacts in one and personal contacts in another. So, why not just merge all your contacts in one location?
Dennis O’Reilly made this suggestion in his regular […]

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