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M-Switch Advanced Guide

It would be fair to say that here at Isode, writing documentation does not rank high on our list of fun things to do. Yet we realise that it's essential and, for R14.4, our engineers made a special effort to ensure that at release our documentation (all of which is available from this page) was up to date with the many new features we introduced.

One of the harder manuals to maintain has always been the M-switch Advanced Administration Guide so for this release and going forward we've decided to publish this guide as a Wiki, available here.

If any of our Customers or Partners wish to contribute their knowledge to this wiki, then please let us know and we'll make editing passwords available.

Updated Eval Guide: Directory Services Interface

Following on from the release of R14.4 last week we're re-writing our evaluaton guides to take into account the new features shipped with this release.

The first of these re-written guides (Directory Services Interface & Password Policy) is now on the website. Those who have run through this guide previously will note that it's now considerably quicker to setup due to our bundling of Tomcat and the automatic setup of web applications.

R14.4 now available for download

After a long run of 28 blog posts about 'forthcoming' R14.4 features, we've now shipped the software. R14.4v0 is now available for download by customers and existing/new evaluators.

The blog posts that related to R14.4 can be seen by clicking on this link. Alternatively there's a run-down of the new features on the R14.4 product page on our website.

R14.4 is a significant update to our complete product set with new features for our XMPP Server M-Link, LDAP/X.500 Directory Server M-Vault, POP/IMAP Message Store & Gateway M-Box , both the SMTP and X.400 versions of our M-Switch message switch and our X.400/Internet mail conversion server, M-Switch MIXER.

We've also made considerable improvements and additions to our management tools.

Over the next few weeks we'll be publishing and blogging about the changes we're making to our evaluation guides to take these new features into account.