LuxSci is including one free WebAide collaboration license with all new accounts effective immediately.  This license offers one user in the account the full range of LuxSci’s WebAide collaboration suite – calendars, tasks, address books, blogs, document storage, password storage, notes, web links, and user groups – for free.  It also permits sharing of these tools globally with other users in the account.

Note that this offer only applies to accounts with email hosting at LuxSci.  It does not apply to High Volume SMTP accounts and accounts with only Premium Email Filtering or Archival services.

If you order WebAides as part of your account using our ordering tools, the first license will be free.

If you have an existing account without WebAides and would like to try them out, the Main Administrator of the account should create a Support Ticket with the request and we can grant you one free WebAide license as well.

Account administrators can now flag users who should be required to change their passwords on their next secure login to the web-based user interface.  This allows for enhanced account security.

Account administrators can flag a user for password change by checking a check box to this effect in the administrative user configuration area of the LuxSci web site.

Accounts using LuxSci’s API can also flag users for password change at any time, including at the time of user creation.  This feature makes it easy for account administrators to create new users and have them be required to change their initial passwords as soon as they login.

LuxSci has re-designed its “Welcome Page” — the first page most people see when they login to LuxSci’s web site — to use “widgets” and to be fully customizable.

“Widgets” are small areas of a web page that display specific self-contained bits of information.  Widgets are common — you may be familiar with some of them such as small web page boxes displaying Facebook information, weather, stocks, games, etc.

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LuxSci and its partner MX Logic have released a series of updates to LuxSci’s Premium Email Filtering and Premium Email Archival services.  These changes include:

• Improved look and feel for the Premium Email Filtering portal.
• Localization of these portal pages into many languages such as: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean
• New archival import services to facilitate import of historical data sets larger than 50 GB into the archival system.
• New Outlook 2007 integration with Premium Email Archival permits searching for, viewing, and saving copies of archived messages directly through Outlook 2007.  This Outlook add-in can be downloaded via the Online Help area of the archival portal.
• New “backscatter” filter allows administrators to block the receipt of all inbound bounce messages (available under the inbound policies – anti-spam – classification – more options area).

For complete details of all of the changes to the Premium Filtering and Archival services, see this service enhancement announcement from MX Logic.

LuxSci has released several significant enhancements to its email and WebAides collaboration tools services that enable users to use “tags” more extensively to manage, categorize, and sort through their information.

For a long time, LuxSci has provided users with the ability to use tags to label and color code email messages, address books entries, documents, etc.  For details on LuxSci’s tag usage in general, see:

• Email Message Tagging  and Color Coding in WebMail
• Tag, you’re it! Productivity through tagging and color coding

Tags at LuxSci have been enhanced with the following features.

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LuxSci has made some notable enhancements to its web-based user interface:

• LuxSci now supports some of the new features of FireFox v3.5 and Internet Explorer v8.0 that improve the speed of our web interface (native JSON processing).

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