Christmas holidays are just around the corner. The world is slowing down, my wife's spinning the 1940s Christmas hits from YouTube, and my neighbor is making a lot of noise with his brand new snowplow. And yes.. Home Alone is on TV again. At CodeTwo we're going against the tide, as usually. I'm not talking about the secure cloudless Outlook sharing platform we released a few weeks ago - I'm talking about all those coding binges. The folks from the dev department are coding as if the end of the world was close and they could stop it somehow. They can, OK? You'll see. Fast on the heels of releasing CodeTwo Public Folders 5, we've rolled out CodeTwo Email Signatures and immediately made headlines on German IT portals. The product lets users add global, company-wide email signatures to emails sent from Office 365, OWA and Outlook. The application is still young and we're constantly developing it. In Q1 2013 it's going to see a major update as we're adding support for Google Apps signatures, and a host of other improvements. But that's not all. There are other products in the works at the moment. Some of them are now being tested in the lab, others are still prototypes, and one ground-breaking app is even on my phone now. Let me take a look at it once again. Aaaah I can see a calendar, contacts... OK I was supposed not to tell anyone yet. You can expect to see a number of exciting products - not only for Exchange 2010 and 2013 but also for Office 365 and other platforms. We're also developing existing applications to make sure they meet all your requirements. And now a sneak peek at our whiteboard. It's not Battleships! Stay tuned and check back with me later. If you have any questions, feel free to post them here as comments - I'm happy to answer all of them.

The recent CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro update has delivered plenty of new features to you. Some of the old ones, on the other hand, have been considerably extended or improved. In our forthcoming blog entries we will cover the hottest changes and novelties applied to version 1.2. We hope that you will find some time to read them and express your opinion about what we have recently implemented. As we develop our applications mostly bearing in mind YOUR NEEDS, would love to hear what your impressions are. What exactly has the latest version of CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro brought to you? To mention just the most important features... Adding Active Directory photos to signatures/disclaimers - thanks to the new dynamic {Photo} placeholder in the Template Editor, it is finally possible to compose signature templates containing the photographs of the senders that are pulled directly from Active Directory. Learn more about Active Directory placeholders in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro... Extended autoresponder feature -  your autoresponder rules can now be even more complex than before thanks to new modes added to the auto-reply template, e.g. autorespond as reply, autorepond as attachment, splitting recipients into TO, CC, BCC and many more. See video... Strip/dump attachments and attachment filter - you can now reject or automatically archive attachments found in messages or create other rules with conditions based on the size or type of attachments found in emails. Learn more about this feature... Rewrite Sender's address - thanks to this new action you will be able to easily rewrite email addresses of given senders or distribution groups. For instance, the whole Technical Support Department in your company can now send messages from one specified email alias, e.g. [email protected]. Learn more about this action... New Remote Access options - it is now possible to manage access rights to given rules settings. You can now decide which Active Directory users can view, edit or delete each rule remotely. This will give you the guarantee that the most important settings will stay unharmed, while e.g. the Marketing guys from your company are changing their promo banners or footers. Learn more about this feature... Richer signature/disclaimer and picture libraries - composing your company signatures or promo footers with CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro is now even easier than before, since our graphic designers have prepared more ready-to-use pictures and templates for you. Feel free to use them in your signature patterns and message themes. Learn more about using Template Library in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro... More information on above mentioned features are still to come on CodeTwo Blog within a couple of days. See you soon then! Read more about CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro Find out more about other CodeTwo Exchange Server add-ons