Author: Szymon Szczesniak

Meet CodeTwo at TechEd Europe 2013
June 4, 2013

Meet CodeTwo at TechEd Europe 2013

This year we're going to be exhibiting at some great events in Europe. We're almost ready to head to Madrid for Microsoft TechEd Europe 2013, so if you're attending this amazing conference, it would be great to meet up and talk! You will have a chance to talk directly to our dev and sales teams, and to see our new applications in action. We're going to be presenting a bunch of tools for Exchange 2013, Office 365 and Outlook 2013, as well as for mobile devices. We would really love to meet you in-person and to hear your product questions, remarks and feedback. Just visit Booth 12 (CodeTwo) anytime you want, and hang out with us during the Welcome Reception on Tuesday, 25 June. If you want to schedule a meeting, just drop me a line at simon.s [att] codetwo.com. Ohh.. and make sure to grab one of our 100% bug free T-shirts when you get there! This is what it looks like if one of us tries it on. Sorry, but I couldn't find anyone slimmer in CodeTwo! Ok, these guys somehow pulled it off to draw their bellies in for 5 seconds! And that's us - meet us at TechEd! See you there!
How to set up Out of Office reply for another user on Exchange or Office 365
March 25, 2013

How to set up Out of Office reply for another user on Exchange or Office 365

UPDATE: We are sorry, but CodeTwo Out of Office Manager mentioned in this article has been discontinued. If you are looking for an alternative for Exchange Server, take a look at the auto respond feature in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro. It's essential to keep your customers, business partners and employees abreast of the important stuff. If you're away due to illness, conference or a business trip with no access to your business email, it goes without saying that you should enable email automatic replies, which will notify all senders that you won't get back to them as quickly as usually, and suggest an alternative contact person. Creating auto-replies just for yourself on Exchange Server or Office 365 is pretty easy, but if you are an HR manager, receptionist or team leader, and you want to create such replies for a colleague or for multiple employees, there is no such option. Well, you could log in to each and every mailbox and set auto-replies manually, but that's a never-ending job and a security breach as you can see people's email. Today we stand an exciting moment together, as we have given a full unveiling to a new tool. CodeTwo Out of Office Manager makes it possible to centally manage Office 365 or Exchange Out of Office messages for many users. What's more, the product is extremely easy to use and the installation process takes literally 60 seconds. Make sure your HR team or the management is equipped with the program. The program has been designed with non-technical employees in mind to take the burden of setting group auto-replies from administrators' shoulders. When you open the program for the first time, you are greeted with the connection dialog box. Just use credentials of a user who has Organization Management rights and you're ready to go. The employees who will be using the program don't need those rights and they are also not able to use the entered credentials for any other actions whatsoever. The main window will launch once you connect to your server. In addition to being able to easily manage auto-reply items, you'll also get the general overview of all absences in you company, both upcoming and past. It helps you stay better organized and can serve as an absence monitor, planning aid, you name it. Scheduling multiple Out of Office items for weeks and months to come is also possible with CodeTwo Out of Office Manager. In other words, if someone is off every Thursday or if you know they will be out of office more than once, you can plan it in advance and be sure the program will activate and deactivate Out of Office items automatically. Fine-tune your automatic email replies with a built in editor. It's really easy to design whatever you want even if you have no experience in HTML. Using the editor view, you don't have to code anything to add tables, links and even Active Directory placeholders. Use smart email templates that can be used for hundreds or thousands of personalized automatic replies. Active Directory attributes used in one template will change into user data when a template is submitted to Exchange or Office 365 user's settings. It's just one minute to be up and running! I mean it. Install the program in a domain environemnt on any machine if you want to connect to Exchange global Out of Office settings. If you're an Office 365 user, you can use any computer to do it. What is more, the application works on Exchange 2010, 2013 and all Office 365 plans. Download CodeTwo Out
Centrally managed email signatures and disclaimers for G Suite
January 30, 2013

Centrally managed email signatures and disclaimers for G Suite

We are sorry, but CodeTwo Email Signatures for Email Clients mentioned in this article has been discontinued. If you are looking for alternatives, take a look at CodeTwo Email Signatures for Office 365. If you are a cloud email admin who manages lots of Gmail users on your Google Apps for Business account, you know that the service is fairly rough around the edges when it comes to email signatures. It's pretty simple for end-users to set up a signature when they are logged into their account, but if you had to create a global disclaimer for the entire company, or at least to centrally unify the signature for selected departments or users, Google Apps won't help you here. This need may sound weird, but it's crucial to append a standardized legal note to all outgoing messages in your firm. If you also care about your corporate identity, it might be a good idea to make sure your employees' signatures correspond with it and look professional. This also doesn't have to mean they can't be personalized. CodeTwo Email Signatures for Email Clients will help you quickly compose a template with Active Directory variables, which can be used as your automatic, company-wide signature for all your Gmail users. No HTML experience is required to do it. If you know how to use a word processor, this program has you covered. Simply install the program on any computer in your domain (it doesn't have to be a server) and launch it.
CodeTwo Exchange Folders coming very soon
January 28, 2013

CodeTwo Exchange Folders coming very soon

For the past months our mobile and Exchange teams have been hacking away on a new program called CodeTwo Exchange Folders and they have now come to a spot that we would refer to as Release Candidate. As the name suggests, the program will let you exchange folders between users and devices. And now... (drums!) you will be able to sync Exchange Public Folders and any personal folders with your Android devices (iOS support coming a few weeks later). The tool will come in tandem with dedicated mobile apps for syncing Exchange calendar, contacts and tasks. Do you think you will warrant these apps a coveted spot on your homescreen?
Meeting requests are back in Outlook and iCloud sync – CodeTwo Sync for iCloud updated
December 20, 2012

Meeting requests are back in Outlook and iCloud sync – CodeTwo Sync for iCloud updated

We've just updated CodeTwo Sync for iCloud - our blockbuster product for hassle-free synchronization of Outlook and iCloud folders (calendars, contacts, reminders/tasks). The new version brings back the meeting request sync feature that was blocked in the previous release due to iCloud resending invites to past events upon sychronization. We've also added support for Outlook 2013 and Windows 8. To update the program, simply download this version and install it on top of the exisiting installation. Your settings will remain unchanged. Thank you for all the comments, emails and phone calls regarding missing features. Without you, this program wouldn't be as killer as it is now. If you have more questions, ideas, or just want to send us your feedback, feel free to add your comment below. And for those of you who haven't heard about CodeTwo Sync for iCloud yet (is this still possible?), check out its website or the video here: Check out CodeTwo Sync for iCloud Find out more about other synchronization tools for Outlook
What’s brewing at CodeTwo? Slew of new products in 2013
December 8, 2012

What’s brewing at CodeTwo? Slew of new products in 2013

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.
Add email signatures to messages sent from Office 365, Outlook and OWA – central management
November 23, 2012

Add email signatures to messages sent from Office 365, Outlook and OWA – central management

Today marks the roll-out of our totally new product - CodeTwo Email Signatures. The program answers the need for an email signature and disclaimer manager that automatically adds personalized signatures to messages sent from Office 365, any version of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Web App (OWA). The application supports Exchange OWA, letting you bypass Hub Transport rules and deploy global email footers directly to OWA settings of each user. In fact, you do not even need Exchange Server as you can do it also for Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007 (an older) hooked up to any kind of account, and for Office 365 users as well. With just a few clicks in a signature creation wizard, you can compose a template with users' data, colors and graphics and create an email policy for the entire company, department or specific users. The product has been launched with a host of features for local and online Outlook: One central manager for email signatures for multiple users Signatures can be deployed for an unlimited number of users Logos, graphics, banners and branding in Outlook email Signatures are added while users compose their email and are also visible in Sent items folders Aids email compliance thanks to disclaimers Easy to use editor for HTML, RTF and TXT signatures Tech support 24h on weekdays CodeTwo Email Signatures comes as a 30-day trial, full-featured version. Prices for the product start at $102 for 10 licenses and you can buy even packs for 1000 users or more. As usually, we are open to any remarks and comments - we will certainly respond to them. Feel free to download this product and test in your environment. CodeTwo Email Signatures home page
We are crazy so call us maybe?
August 29, 2012

We are crazy so call us maybe?

Hey. What's wrong with us? Nothing, really. But when I look at some of the photos of us and our office taken in 2012, it makes me wonder if we're not as crazy as Carly Rae Jepsen would want us to be. Take a look at some of the shots from the office and the neighborhood, and decide for yourself. And then... call us maybe, eh? There is a hair salon down below our office. Mostly for girls, so boys don't plunge into the unknown (which means anywhere outside the office). We have everything we need here - even a bunch of drone-barbers that cut hair together with bits of foreheads with laser accuracy. There's also a drum kit with giant drum sticks. Or normal drum sticks with a tiny drum kit. I couldn't figure it out... And that's from Darts International Masters. Don't mind the guy on the right - he's from Tech Support. As you can see, hardly anyone knows what a bullseye is. And this is a Robin Hood style from the programmers' dep. Sorry for the quality - I think the pic was taken with a vacuum cleaner. And yes, that's a fire extinguisher next to a chair - it's just because it's so hot when they play darts! Is this my son's desk? No! It belongs to someone from Tech Support! We didn't have any gangs (I think...) in our town so we decided to create our own. The lady in the middle (there are no other ladies I think) is a photo model. We're not sexy enough to even make a pass to any girl... But the photo looks good, doesn't it? And we also threw a crazy IT party with Guitar & Glockenspiel Heroes a few weeks ago... And then we took some yoga classes just outside of our town... If you exercise a lot (for like 3 minutes) the landscape behind looks like the Gale Crater! Great yoga stuff! So, is this crazy? Can you call us maybe? If you make any tech support call, chances are that the guy on the left (the Mario-like creature) will answer it. But don't worry, he only looks crazy. Please don't judge the book by its cover.


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