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New Kerio Connect 7
February 2010 by Marc Jacob
The new Kerio Connect 7, previously known as Kerio MailServer, marks the messaging server’s entry into the market of midsize, multi‐office deployments, giving customers an option to link standalone servers into a single distributed domain system.
The advantages of a distributed domain become apparent for organizations with branch offices in different physical locations. While companies often install separate messaging servers in offices located in other cities or countries for performance, security or compliance reasons, they often lose the benefits of a single collaboration server – most notably the ability
Kerio Connect 7 allows companies to join their Kerio Connect servers into a single geographically dispersed cluster with servers aware of each other’s user groups, individual user’s availability, shared contacts in Global Address Lists, or shared resources such conference rooms.
The management of distributed domains is an integral part of a newly introduced web‐based Administration Console, providing complete remote management of Kerio Connect 7 from any modern browser. New contact list sync via CardDAV Kerio Connect 7 continues to push toward open standards in messaging and collaboration with the implementation of a new open source protocol CardDAV for address book synchronization.
Apple Address Book, a CardDAV‐compliant client in Mac OS X Snow Leopard, now syncs contacts directly with Kerio Connect 7. A configuration utility available through Kerio WebMail helps users setup their Address Book in a few clicks.
Availability and pricing
Kerio Connect 7 is available now from Kerio partners worldwide. It starts at 315 Euros for 5 users. Kerio Connect 7 runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and is also available as a VMware Virtual Appliance and Parallels Virtual Appliance.