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novnos ZCS - Powered by Zimbra, features compatibility with Microsoft Outlook, Apple Desktop applications, Novell Evolution, and all other standards-based POP/IMAP/iCal clients. Our broad desktop compatibility gives end-users freedom of choice and administrators the ability to protect their desktop investments because mixed PC, Mac, and Linux desktop deployments can all run on the same ZCS Server.

Zimbra Connector for Microsoft Outlook

The Zimbra Connector for Outlook provides real time two-way synchronization of mail, contacts, tasks, and calendar between Outlook and the ZCS server. It is available for users of novnos Zimbra Collaboration Suite Enhanced Edition.

The Zimbra Connector is unique because we innovate beyond Outlook + Exchange. For example, not only can users completely delegate access, they also have much more granular control of folder and sub-folder sharing plus recipients have access to shared content offline.

Features:

• Zimbra integrates natively into Outlook
• Email, contacts, calendar, and task natively sync via MAPI
• Native integration, uses all Outlook UI
• Delegate access to others (folders, email, contacts, schedule)
• Supports both Online and Offline mode, including access to shared content Offline
• Full support for GAL
• Sync optimized for fastest performance
• Seamless auto-install, tools provided to pre-configure installer with your server settings
• Supports Outlook 2003 / 2007

Zimbra Apple Desktop Connector

The Zimbra Apple Desktop Connector also provides real time two-way synchronization of mail, contacts, and calendar between the Apple Desktop and the ZCS server using a native iSync interface.  It is available for users of novnos Zimbra Collaboration Enhanced Edition.

Features:

• Sync Apple Mail, iCal, Address Book, and Microsoft Entourage via iSync *
• Totally uses native application UI
• Fast native installation
• Integration directly into Apple System Preferences
• Configurable sync frequency

* We only support entourage on Mac OS X 10.4


Standards-Based Clients

Clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird, Sunbird, and Eudora can be used with novnos™ ZCS to access email and even calendar data because the open source novnos™ Zimbra Server uses an all standards-based approach and supports POP, IMAP, iCal, CalDAV, RSS, etc.

Features:

• Access email via POP or IMAP (available on virtually all email clients)
• Access calendar on clients that support iCal or CalDAV
• Sync contacts with import / export (.csv file) from novnos™ Zimbra Web client