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Written by Travis Swientek
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Sunday, 01 June 2008 |
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Sunday, June 1, 2008 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, The Montopolis Group will be performing mail server maintenance. During this time your ability to access email via POP, IMAP, and Webmail will be limited. During maintenance, no mail will be lost, all mail will be queued until our mail servers come back online. Once we are back online will post a notification on our website.
Thank you for your patience while we continue to improve our mail service.
Please do not hesitate to email
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for information.
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New Networking/Communications Solutions |
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Written by Babul Mukherjee
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
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We have added a new area to our website which details all of our new Security, Mobility/Wireless, Unified Communications, and Managed Services offerings.
Click here to check it out.
This new area has tons of Videos (and of course PDFs and the like) which provides nice, quick overviews.
Contact us when you want to discuss further! |
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The Montopolis Group, Ltd. is now Cisco Select Certified! |
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Written by Babul Mukherjee
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
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I am happy to announce that we are now a Cisco Select Certified Partner and have attained our SMB Specialization!
While we have made quite a name for ourselves as a provider of Cisco services and consultation for almost 8 years now, Cisco never had the “right” vendor program that fit us and our clients.
Luckily we have enjoyed a VERY productive sales and technical relationship with our assigned Cisco Team mates for the last three years.
I look at our new relationship with Cisco as the long engagement that FINALLY resulted in a walk-down-the-isle! 
What does this mean to you?
It means that we passed the “test” with Cisco and they publicly acknowledge that we have what it takes to support clients with under 250 employees. Of course you already knew that.
It means that we now have access to more tools, training and communication options with Cisco. But you already know that we don’t stop until we provide the best solution for you.
Most importantly it means we will be able to bring you the most deployed, feature-rich, stable VoIP phone system solution available on the market! No matter where you look, you’ll see more Cisco VoIP phones than any other.
Cisco’s new VoIP offering for small-medium businesses takes everything they have learned deploying millions of IP phones to the largest organizations in the world, and packaged it for our SMB clients. Learn more about it here.
Of course, we look forward to taking this platform and extending it in the all the ways our SMB clients need (because we can’t just leave well enough alone) to make VoIP a true leap-forward for their business. |
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Written by Travis Swientek
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
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The Montopolis Group is planning to upgrade a core component in our mail infrastructure which may affect your email!
You can help to prevent interruption of your email by making the changes outlined below.
For all of our customers who currently use Outlook and "POP" off of our servers, meaning you are not using exchange, please follow the steps below.
**Note: All of our TotalCare subscribers will not need to make any changes, we will make the necessary changes for you.
You will need to update your pop and smtp server settings within Outlook to point to "mail.yourdomain.com" instead of "pop3.yourdomain.com" and "smtp.yourdomain.com".
The steps for Microsoft Outlook are:
- Click on Tools -> Options
- Click on the "Mail Setup" Tab.
- Click on the "E-mail Accounts" button
- Choose "View or change existing e-mail accounts".
- You should be on the 'Internet E-mail Settings (POP3)' page.
- Enter the parameters from below.
- Incoming/POP3 Server: mail.mydomain.com
- Outgoing/SMTP Server: mail.mydomain.com
- Mail Username:
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- Mail Password: ********
- Outgoing Authentication is still REQUIRED to be enabled.
Click Here for a before screenshot!
Click Here for an after screenshot!
If you have any questions regarding this process, you can obtain the fastest support via email at
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Thank you for your help in regards to this issue, we know you'll be pleased with the mail upgrade! Please continue to visit our website for more details regarding the upgrade. Any additional notices will be published on our website.
Thanks again,
The Montopolis Group Support Team
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Written by Travis Swientek
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Wednesday, 14 March 2007 |
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Do you need help setting up your email? Need help loggin into Control Panel?
We've got several video tutorials on our website to help you out! Navigate to the "Resources" tab, then click "Knowledge Base."
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Microsoft Vista/Office/Exchange Launch! |
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Written by Travis Swientek
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
Are you ready for Microsoft 2007? Come visit our booth at the 2007 Microsoft Windows Vista, Office and Exchange launch conference at the Mariott River Center, Downtown San Antonio! You'll have the opportunity to check out all the new features of the new operating system, Microsoft Windows Vista!! The conference is on February 27, 2007.
Hope to see you there!!
Windows Vista!
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Written by Travis Swientek
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
TotalCare Overview
If you are a TotalCare Proactive or higher client of ours, we will be co-coordinating this for you - this is just for your information.
Any other software, not covered by TotalCare, and potentially impacted by this change, needs to be verified with its vendor.
Overview of DST Change
The U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005, passed by the U.S. Congress July, 2005, extended Daylight Saving Time (DST) in the U.S. by approximately four weeks. As a result, beginning in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier on March 11, 2007, and end one week later on November 4, 2007, resulting in a new DST period that is four weeks longer than previously observed. These four weeks are referred to in this article as the "extended DST period".
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Previously DST started on: |
With the new law,
DST will start on: |
Previous DST ended on: |
With the new law,
DST will end on: |
First Sunday of April |
Second Sunday of March |
Last Sunday of October |
First Sunday of November |
Would have been:
April 1, 2007 |
Will now be:
March 11, 2007 |
Would have been:
October 28, 2007 |
Will now be:
November 4, 2007 |
Unless certain updates are applied to your computer, it is possible that the time zone settings for your computer's system clock may be incorrect during this four week period. This depends on where you live and which time zone you have selected.
The change in DST will have an effect on many automated and technology reliant products. Individual consumers, small to medium size businesses, and large enterprises may be affected by the new change in time. Computer-system related issues include, for example:
- Calendar / scheduling applications
- Date / time calculations (current and historical)
- Transaction logging (UTC vs. Local Time)
- Tariff billing applications
In many cases, making the necessary changes to accommodate the new DST legislation will be a relatively minor task. Users may need to manually adjust the time on their devices when the change occurs.
In other cases, more substantial efforts may be required. In some cases, systems and applications may need to be updated directly, while in others, the application may simply inherit or "read" the date and time information from the underlying system that it resides on so the changes need only be made to that underlying system. Given the broad range of technology in use today-and the integration of systems between customers, vendors, and partners-business and IT managers should determine what actions should be taken to mitigate the affects of DST 2007 on their organizations.
What you can do to ease the transition
All users of Microsoft products affected by the time change should give extra attention to meetings and appointments scheduled between March 11, 2007 to April 1, 2007 and October 28, 2007 to November 4, 2007, referred to here as the "extended DST period." (In this article, the terms "meetings" and "appointments" will be used interchangeably.) Users should view any appointments that fall into these date ranges as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees to make sure that the item shows up correctly on everyone's calendar both internally and externally. To minimize confusion during the affected date ranges:
- Include the time of the meeting in the e-mail request so that invitees can double check the correct meeting time (such as, "Project brainstorming - 11:00 A.M. Central Time").
- Exercise caution with the appointments and meetings in the extended DST period. When in doubt, verify the correct time with the organizer.
- Consider printing out your weekly calendars during the extended DST period prior to applying the Windows patch containing the updated time zone definitions and running the Outlook Time Zone Update tool so that you can keep track of which meetings were scheduled before and after you run the tool.
Conclusion
Please let us know if you need us to assist in any way. As we all learned from Y2K, changes to the computer's clock or calendar could have serious implications.
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