OFFICE 2016 RELEASED

Office 2016 has now been released, and you can get this by logging into your portal as an end user with a valid licence assigned. On the login screen look for Install Office on more devices then click the Install hyperlink (see image below). This will start the download and install the software, once this is complete, run each application of Office and enter the users Office 365 credentials. To find…

New MPexchange products coming soon…

Over the next couple of months you will see our new updated suite of Exchange 2013 based MPexchange products designed to help you transition your existing SBS / on-premise customers into the cloud with minimal pain, minimal work, and maximum recurring profit!   MPexchange will deliver attractive options  to, and also be complimentary with our Office 365 range of products. A glimpse of some of what is to come… Migration…

2015 Weekend to End Women’s Cancers

Manage Protect is a proud supporter of the 2015 Weekend to End Women’s Cancers and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. Over the past 3 years of The Weekend to End Women’s Cancers, they have raised more than $6.7 million for life-saving cancer research programs. If you would like more information about how you can support their vital work at QIMR Berghofer, please visit www.qimrberghofer.edu.au.

SMBiT National Conference

Manage Protect were proud to support the SMBiT Professional’s National Conference on the 6th and 7th of October in the Gold Coast. We presented a glimpse of what is coming over the next couple of months with our new MPexchange offering and Office 365. It was also an excellent opportunity to catch up with so many members who we had spoken with on the phone, but had not met at…

Events Update

Last month, we presented and sponsored a number of events across Australia. These included: Heartland Technology Group – Q3 2015 Meeting in Brisbane [Lunch and Learns with HTG21,HTG30,HTG26). SMBiT Professionals – August meeting in Sydney SMBiT Professionals – August meeting in Brisbane Manage Protect Partner Event in Melbourne Manage Protect Partner Event in Sydney Autotask Training Event in Sydney. If you would like to view the presentations from these events, click here.

SOONR MARKETING CAMPAIGNS

As a Manage Protect Partner, we have a variety of marketing campaigns available to help you to share Soonr with your customers. Using your free account on the Soonr Partner Portal and a variety of Manage Protect collateral, you will have access to marketing materials (with co-branding options available), have the ability to set up free trials for your customers, send out automated email campaigns, host joint webinars, and much…

BILLING SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS

After the launch of our new fully automated billing system in July, we received a lot of feedback from partners. The CSV files attached to the invoices with your customers’ data in particular has been received well — with many partners requesting that this be provided prior to the end of the month, so that they can both check what their invoice is going to be, but also use the…

MPmail Update

Issues receiving emails from Web Central During the last week of August and first week of September, a number of our partners reported issues with email from Web Central being bounced directly by our Roaming Black Lists technology (with the sender receiving a 551 Mailhost is on our global block list.) We worked closely with the team at Melbourne IT to resolve the issue which ended up being a specific customer within…

Autotask Acquires Soonr

On the 29th of July 2015, Autotask acquired Soonr — the technology provider for our Australian File Sync and Share product of the same name. On Wednesday the 5th of August I met with Mark Cattini (President and CEO), Elmer Lai (CFO) and Patrick Burns (VP Product Management) of Autotask in the Soonr offices in San Jose to discuss the future of how we will work with Soonr/Autotask in Australia and New…