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INDEX
NetAccess Begins 15th Year
Hosted Microsoft Exchange
BlackBerry Services
VoIP Service - IGONET
SharePoint Services
Please check DNS Servers
Have you Considered Co-location?
NetAccess Provides Offsite Backup Services
Protection for Mail Servers - SMTP Service
NetAccess Price Increase
NetAccess Begins 15th Year
On June 1st, 2007 NetAccess entered into its 15th year of business. As one of Canada's first independent ISPs, NetAccess continues to be a leader in the development of Internet services for business and professional users. Over the past couple of months we have introduced a number of new services that are outlined in this newsletter. In association with our select group of IT partners, we will be glad to show you how you can give your company a critical advantage in today's rapidly developing IT/Internet environment. For more information, or to schedule a consultation click here
Hosted Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange is the world's most popular business messaging platform, with almost 60% of the market. It boosts company productivity through advanced features like always-synced email, files, calendars and contacts; mobile access on devices such as the BlackBerry. It also provides advanced Web mail; shared calendars that let employees see colleagues’ availability to schedule or rearrange meetings, book conference rooms and plan projects.
Unfortunately, for many SMBs, the cost of running an MS Exchange server ‘in-house’ is simply too much to justify for their specific requirements. In such situations, a 'hosted Exchange' service makes much better sense. Using a NetAccess Exchange server hosting for a small monthly fee (starting at $9.95/mo) allows small businesses to enjoy the same enterprise-strength IT that Fortune 500 companies have, but at a price they can easily afford. If you would like more information on Microsoft Exchange services, please contact us at sales@nas.net.
BlackBerry Services
NetAccess now provides BlackBerry services through its Microsoft Exchange Enterprise Edition on BlackBerry Enterprise Server. By mobilizing Microsoft Exchange on your BlackBerry, your organization can boost business performance by increasing productivity and enabling workers to make timely decisions based on the most accurate information available. BlackBerry Enterprise Server is the clear choice for the Microsoft Exchange enterprise. It provides push-based wireless access to Microsoft Exchange email and Microsoft Exchange calendar, contacts and scheduling. It also provides the capability to utilize instant messaging and collaboration and other enterprise applications and systems such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and more. If you would like more information on BlackBerry Services, please contact us at sales@nas.net.
VoIP Service - IGONET
IGONET is an affordable and easy-to-use broadband telephone service. It allows anyone with broadband (high-speed) Internet access to use their regular phone to place calls anywhere in the world! IGONET provides unlimited, fixed cost calling plans - one within North America, and another within 30 countries worldwide. And no matter what plan you choose, you are sure to save money on low rates to countries not included in your plans. If you would like more information, please check the link on the NetAccess website or contact us at sales@nas.net or 905-524-2001 x221.
SharePoint Services
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration, Windows SharePoint Services gives people easy, web-based access to the information they need, when they need it. Using SharePoint services through NetAccess and our team of partners can help to make your organization work more effectively.
Using a customized SharePoint solution we can help you to: bring your company's information together; link your systems; eliminate redundancy; get the most value out of your data; create a complete overview of your business; automate your business processes; and let your people focus on doing their jobs.
Using Microsoft's SharePoint technologies, we can help you take your collaboration and information handling to new levels. The NetAccess team and partners can help you with the full spectrum of SharePoint services to meet any organization's needs. Our hosted services can get you started with SharePoint quickly and with no upfront investment through customized development of a SharePoint service to target the unique requirements of your organization.
For more information contact sales@nas.net
Please Check DNS Servers (particularly for dial-up users)
Please ensure that you are using current DNS Server IP addresses. These are:
Primary (or Preferred) DNS server: 216.145.96.5
Secondary (or Alternate) DNS Server: 216.145.104.8
Dial-up users will have these IP Addresses hard coded in their Dial-Up Networking settings. If you are using old DNS Server IPs (e.g., 199.243.225.x), very shortly they will NOT work as these are being withdrawn. They have not been current for many years. The effect of these not working will be to make it appear that your Internet connection is down. You will be unable to connect to any websites because your browser will not be able to convert a domain name (e.g., www.apple.com) to an IP Address in order to access that website. For more information contact support@nas.net
Have you Considered Co-location?
Would you rather spend your time on growing your business or on fighting hardware and software battles? NetAccess can help by providing a safe, environmentally controlled, secure home for your server requirements. Benefits of this NetAccess co-location service include: more reliable uptime, better network speed and reliability, better power redundancy, better environmental controls, lower administration costs, better/less expensive access to network and server specialists, and higher Internet bandwidth. For more information contact sales@nas.net
NetAccess Provides Offsite Backup Services
If you have critical data you should be backing up offsite, NetAccess has a simple, economical, and effective solution for you. Server NetBackup™ enables you to take advantage of any high speed connection (DSL, fibre, cable) to automatically perform regular full, differential, or incremental backups of your important data during off hours. Create ease of mind from knowing your critical data is secure and best of all it takes no effort on your part. NetAccess will do the installation, set up a schedule, and test the backup procedures and then monitor the backups to ensure your data is being backed up. Restoring data is a simple point and click operation done via a secure web interface. Restores are completely under your control and are done in real time. If you would like more information or would like to see a demo of Server NetBackup™, please contact us at sales@nas.net or 905-524-2001 x221. An online demo can be easily arranged and can be done with you at your computer.
Protection for Mail Servers - SMTP Service
NetAccess has been providing its NetShield Server™ service for several years. For those not familiar with the service it provides a SPAM and virus filtering service for clients who have their own email servers. "SMTP Service" is an extension to this service that allows clients with mail servers to not only receive email but also to send email through NetAccess. The advantage for clients is that their email server can be completely isolated from the Internet. The only access to and from the Internet is via NetAccess mail servers. Our servers handle all SPAM and virus attacks and handle all (non-permanent) email delivery issues. It is a safe and convenient way to offload many email server administration tasks, all for a low monthly fee. For more information contact support@nas.net
NetAccess Price Increase
Effective September 1, 2007, NetAccess will be applying a minor price increase on selected services. This is the first price increase of this kind since NetAccess began business in 1993. We are introducing this price adjustment to cover increases in most of our own service and business operating costs. NetAccess is committed to providing our clients with the best possible service and support, and we have continued to invest in staff, services, and our core infrastructure to remain the premium ISP in our region. For more information contact accounts@nas.net
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