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How to: Access another users Calendar in Kerio Connect 7 Mail Server
May 27th
Accessing a colleagues Calendar in Kerio Connect 7 Mail Server couldn’t be simpler:
Firstly, that user must share their Calendar with you, see How to: Share your Calendar in Kerio Connect 7 Mail Server
If you’re using Web-mail:
- At the top left hand corner, right click on your own email address
- From the drop down menu select ‘subscribe shared folders’
- A pop up box will appear, enter the full email address of the user whos calendar you want to access and press enter.
- The system will now show a list of folders which this user has decided to share with you. If no options are displayed, either the user has not shared any folders with you or the email address entered is incorrect.
- Click the check box next to the folders you wish to subscribe to and press enter.
- At the very bottom of your mail account you should now have a new folder with that staff member’s account and the folders they have shared with you
- Expand this folder and this staff member’s calendar folder will be displayed.
If you’re using Outlook 2007:
- Right click on your mailbox on the right hand side of the screen it will say Mailbox – YOUR NAME
from the Menu select ‘Properties for Mailbox – Your Name’
- A pop up box will appear and you should select the folder mapping tab
- Next click on configure
- Choose the add button and enter the full email address of the user who’s calendar you want to access and press enter.
- If the user can not be found you will receive an error message.
- The email address entered should now be displayed on the list.
- Click ok and close the open boxes.
- You will now see that on the left hand side of the screen a new mail box has appeared with the email address of the person which you have added.
- If you now click onto your calendar you will see under ‘my calendars’ there is now an option to view that member of staff’s calendar as well.
- Clicking on each of the calendars you can view more than one side by side, simply by clicking on the check boxes next to the calendars name.
How to: Share your Calendar in Kerio Connect 7 Mail Server
May 27th
Sharing your Calendar in Kerio Connect 7 Mail Server couldn’t be simpler:
If you’re using Web-mail:
- Log into web-mail.
- Right click your personal calendar, it will be shown as a folder on the left of the screen.
- When you right click a menu will appear, choose access rights.
- A small pop up box will appear, if it doesn’t check you’re pop up blocker settings.
- Click add in the top right of the box.
- Another smaller pop up box should now appear.
- To give access rights to everyone to view your own calendar, click on sharing type and a drop down menu should appear.
- Click “all users from Domain”. The Domain field should automatically complete with your company’s domain, so simply press OK. This will give all users access to view your calendar.
- If you only want a particular user to have access to your calendar, go to add then pick user, and in the user-name box enter that particular persons full email address and press OK. This will only give that user access to your calendar.
- Once you have added a user (or group of users) you must now select the level of access they should have from the drop down menu, select Reader for Read Only Access, Editor to allow them to Edit and Add to your Calendar.
If you’re Using Outlook 2007
- Right click on your calendar and choose properties, a pop up box will appear.
- Click onto the ‘folder sharing’ tab, in this box is a list of users who currently have access to view your calendar.
- Click on the add button and a box named folder sharing should appear.
- In this box click ‘allow access to folder for:’ and a drop down menu should appear.
- Just as for the web-mail above, if you want a single user to have access to your calendar, click user and add the users full email address and hit OK.
- If you want everyone to have access select ‘Authenticated user from Domain’ and hit OK.
- Once you have added a user (or group of users) you must now select the level of access they should have from the drop down menu, select Reader for Read Only Access, Editor to allow them to Edit and Add to your Calendar.
If you are using another collaboration program including iCal on mac or CalDav, We suggest you share your calendar via the Web Mail Service.
If you wish to access colleagues calendar read: How to: Access another users Calendar in Kerio Connect 7 Mail Server
Changing your password in Kerio Mailserver
Jun 16th
Changing your passwords is very easy.
Under your Windows computer press Crtl + Alt + Del and select change password.
To Change your email password, simply log into your Web Mail (call us if you don’t know the address)
Then Select change password from the Settings drop down menu as below
settings menu in kerio webmail
And then enter your old and new passwords in the box below.
kerio password change dialog box
Remember to make it something secure that no one will guess, no kids, partners or team names and no dictionary words. Random Numbers and letters, remember capitals and lower case combinations are best, or try a sentence like “Why can 1 never remember 555″ you can use spaces. Remember the best passwords are not necessarily easy to remember but they can be if your clever about it. Hackers offten use a dictionary or password list attack to crack passwords, this is where a system tires every word in the dictionary or in a common password list, things like Rangers, Rang3rs or Celtic, C3lt1c will be near the top of that list.
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7
May 18th
Over the next few weeks Kraya will be upgrading everyone who currently uses Kerio to the latest version of the mail server software. If you have been directed to this blog post, it is probably because your upgrade is happening soon. Please read below to understand how this might affect you.
The latest update to Kerio Mailserver fixes a number of bugs including slow response times when using Outlook and the issues with the Kerio Offline Outlook connector consuming large amounts of RAM. It also fixes an issue with Thunderbird incorrectly mapping default folders such as trash and junk.
More detailed information on all of the changes can be found in the release notes for Kerio Mail server 6.7.0 here. However you should note that this information is aimed at techies not users.
Information for each user base:
Thunderbird and other users using IMAP accounts
- You should notice no changes to your email client. We will be looking at users accounts where duplicate folders have been highlighted to us over the next few weeks to ensure these are removed and mapped correctly.
Web Mail users
- No action is needed, when you next log in you may notice a few minor adjustments to the operations in web mail.
Outlook Users
- A new version of the Kerio Outlook Connector needs to be installed. When you open Outlook for the first time you will be greeted by a message asking you if you want you upgrade now, the answer is YES. The upgrade will take a few minutes and your Outlook will restart. Please take a look at the Screen shot links below for both Windows XP and Vista.
Windows XP Screenshots and Upgrade walk through
Windows VISTA Screenshots and Upgrade walk through
As always if you have any issues or questions please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Windows VISTA Screenshots and Upgrade walk through for Kerio Mailserver upgrade
May 18th
Throughout this process it is VITAL that you leave the computer to complete the update. Please do not interact with the computer unless told to do so below.
The Morning after the upgrade, please log in is normal before opening anything else please open Outlook as normal. You will the be greeted by the message below;
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows VISTA Screenshot Message 1 on open of Outlook
Please select YES.
The new Version will now be downloaded from the server. You should see this:
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows VISTA Screenshot of Microsoft Outlook progress
Once this has completed Outlook will be closed and the New Version installed. Once the update has completed you will see this:
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows VISTA Screenshot Outlook Completed
Press yes and leave outlook alone for a few minutes (5 to 10 depending on your own computer) whilst it completes the re-synchronisation.
If you have any issues please let us know. Furthermore, we are very keen to hear about any improvements or problems you have.
Windows XP Screenshots and Upgrade walk through for Kerio Mailserver upgrade
May 18th
Throughout this process it is VITAL that you leave the computer to complete the update. Please do not interact with the computer unless told to do so below.
The Morning after the upgrade, please log in is normal before opening anything else please open Outlook as normal. You will the be greeted by the message below;
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows XP Screenshot Message 1 on open of Outlook
Please select YES.
The new Version will now be downloaded from the server. You should see this:
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows XP Screenshot Outlook progress 1
Once this has completed Outlook will be closed, as below:
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows XP Screenshot Outlook progress 2
Then the New Version will be installed:
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows XP Screenshot Outlook progress 3
Once the update has completed you will see this:
Kerio Mailserver Upgrade from 6.6 to 6.7 Windows XP Screenshot Outlook upgrade complete
Press yes and leave outlook alone for a few minutes (5 to 10 depending on your own computer) whilst it completes the re-synchronisation.
If you have any issues please let us know. Furthermore, we are very keen to hear about any improvements or problems you have.
Kerio Mail Server – Feedback and Updates
May 14th
Posted by stephen in Linux
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Kerio have recently introduced a new update for the Kerio MailServer (KMS), which has fast become krayatec’s favoured mail server.
We have now deployed Kerio MailServer 6.2 to most of our clients and despite a handful of teething problems, most are now seeing advantages over Exchange and their previous IMAP based systems.
Feedback from clients has generally been positive, however for two of our clients the switch has not been as pain free as we would have liked and they are still experiencing several issues:
The release notes for the new Update to Kerio MailServer 6.7 suggests that this upgrade will fix most of these issues. The update has now been deployed to our own Kerio system and we are currently testing this in full prior to deployment to our clients systems. After discussing the updates with the Kerio team, we are very hopeful of resolving the above issues. However, it is indisputable that issues may remain with legacy systems, particularity Windows 2000.
Feedback / comments and suggestions for the above issues are always welcome.