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Small Business, Big Party at SXSW 2010

Mar 4th, 2010 in Company News by Cameron Nouri

UPDATE: Rackspace is going to be all over the place at SXSW.  Check out this link to see all the places we’ll be and come join us!

The Small Business Web

Get connected with Rackspace and other members of the software-as-a-service revolution known as The Small Business Web during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Drinks, food and fun surprises abound.

Details

4-7pm Saturday, March 13
The Pure Volume House at 504 Trinity St, Austin, TX.

You must sign up here for the party. Austin law requires us to have a guest list.

About The Small Business Web

The Small Business Web is a movement to bring together like-minded, customer-obsessed software companies to integrate our respective products and make life easier for small businesses.  There are over 70 companies to date that have joined The Small Business Web.  Such companies as FreshBooks, MailChimp and BatchBlue are all members to date.

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Sharing Rackspace Email Calendars

Feb 19th, 2010 in Tips & Advice by Matt Pfeil

If you use our Exchange Hybrid, you might not realize that Rackspace Email users can share their calendars with co-workers who use Exchange, even though they’re on different platforms. Here’s all you have to do . . .

Step One: Enable the Calendar Feed

The Rackspace Email user needs to enable their Calendar Feed URL and then send the URL to the Exchange user.

Step Two: Add the Calendar in Outlook

The Exchange user just needs to add the Rackspace Email user’s calendar.

To view step-by-step directions, please see our support article, iCal Feeds in Outlook.

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Introducing Microsoft SharePoint – Free To Try For Customers

Feb 11th, 2010 in Product Enhancements by Cameron Nouri

Every business has to decide on ways to solve the everyday need of collaborating with others in and outside the organization. This leads to many businesses asking — “How can we help our employees be more productive?”

We are interested in solving this problem.

We have heard loud and clear from customers that they want a better way to collaborate within their organization. Being able to share documents or files, company information, collaborating on projects, or having a central repository for your company knowledge are all top requests. At the same time customers have been asking specifically for Microsoft SharePoint as the solution of choice.

Well, we have been listening and we are proud to announce that today we are offering a hosted Microsoft SharePoint solution for customers of Rackspace Email & Apps!

If you use Rackspace Email or Hosted Microsoft Exchange you can implement SharePoint for FREE with up to 250 MB of storage to get started. Need more space? No problem! You can always upgrade and purchase additional storage as your needs grow.

You can start to learn more about SharePoint on our website or if you are a current customer you can log in to your control panel to start using it today. We are also going to be hosting some upcoming webinars to help explain some details around how SharePoint can help your business, which you can sign up for here.

As always keep the feedback coming – We are listening!

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Scheduling Meetings in Outlook with Rackspace Email

Oct 20th, 2009 in Tips & Advice by Rex Card

With the smell of freshly brewed coffee in the air, I open up Microsoft Outlook and head straight to my calendar to start scheduling meetings. Being a technical project manager, part of my job includes scheduling meetings—and in any given session, I easily schedule 5+ meetings for 15+ folks.

When scheduling a meeting, it is, of course, important to find a time when everyone can meet. Microsoft Exchange customers are already familiar with using Outlook to schedule a meeting based on others’ schedules. But, did you know that Rackspace Email customers can use Outlook to do that, too?

With Sync for Outlook, I can easily sync my co-workers’ 65+ calendars, adding them to my Outlook. And because I use Automatic Sync, I don’t even need to push a button—it automatically syncs the data in the background, so I can go on with my work. Since my Outlook calendar data is kept up-to-date, I’m always ready whenever I need to schedule a meeting that will work for everyone.

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Launch: Auto Delete Invitations

Sep 22nd, 2009 in Product Enhancements, Tips & Advice by Matt Pfeil

I receive several event invitations a week—sometimes even several a day. Every time I get an invitation, I either accept or decline, and then I delete the email. The way I see it, if I can’t attend the event, I don’t need to keep the invitation. And if I accept the invitation, the event information is transferred to my calendar.

So, for people like me, Rackspace Email has released a new webmail calendar feature that saves me a few valuable seconds. With the new “Autodelete Invites” option, I can automatically delete the invitation email as soon as I’ve accepted or declined the invitation.

To check it out, just log into Rackspace Email and select Settings / General Settings / Calendar.

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