Last month Andrew Johnson (CEO – Manage Protect) was fortunate to gain some quality insights into the direction of our newest technology partner Intermedia. As the world’s largest hosted exchange provider outside of Microsoft, Intermedia have been working hard to deliver the technology solutions to meet the needs of their partners both in the US and abroad. With the new MPexchange plans, you may have noticed they now include a complimentary…
New Manage Protect 2016 Price List
As many of you would have noticed on the August 2016 price list sent last week, we now have a number of new products and bundles. A few noteables changes are: MPexchange – now 2016, unlimited, includes ShareSync, ConnectID & mailbox backup but with a price drop to $9.95 for Gold Partners (includes full managed migration & MPmail!) No more Setup fees for Bronze and Silver Partners! New NFR pricing on MPexchange…
Update on Service Issues
MPmail – Virus False Positives We have recently seen a number of reports of Virus False Positives (stopping items as viruses incorrectly), particularly due to the use of “small URL links”. We are working closely with the engineers in Germany to best optimise this behaviour and we would ask you to bear with us over the next couple of weeks while we get this tuned better for our local conditions.…
Brendan Gibson – CEO Sleepout
We are proud to support Brendan Gibson from Answers IT [Gold Partner] this year for his CEO Sleepout in Brisbane. We are proud to serve an organisation like Answer’s IT who consistently tries to help their community in so many ways. Well done Brendan & the Answer’s IT team!
MPmail Roadmap – Better Protection for Ransomware / PHISHing
The selection of EveryCloud as a technology partner for the threat protection in MPmail was in part influenced by their extensive threat heuristic technology and performance on successfully blocking PHISHing attacks, Cryptolocker emails and Macro Viruses. EveryCloud continue to evolve this technology with new waves of cryptolocker and phising mails resulting in the development of some new features for our email security services. The new features will be bundled under…
Welcome to Intermedia Partners
During the months of May & June, Manage Protect have been very proud to welcome Intermedia’s Australian partner base of over 400 businesses to the Manage Protect partner program! Intermedia partners in Australia now have access to Manage Protect local partner management, technical support, AUD billing and to our full suite of MSP cloud technology services (including Office 365, mailbox backup, MPmail & MParchive). We wish to welcome these new…
MPexchange 2016 Australia goes live!
Our first contribution to both the existing Intermedia partners, and our existing Manage Protect partners was the launch of our MPexchange 2016 data centre in conjunction with our global technology partner Intermedia. The team have been working hard to upgrade our existing MPexchange 2010 customers over to 2016 over the months of May & June in addition to the existing MPmail V2 upgrade occurring concurrently. All MPexchange 2010 customers will…
FREE MANAGED MIGRATIONS TO CLOUD
Manage Protect have offered managed migrations to the cloud for our partners for almost six years – but now with newer and more sophisticated tools from Intermedia, we are happy to announce that we will provide both “Managed Migrations” and “Cross Forest Migrations” for free to all partners! This allows our partners to take on large migration projects utilising our resources, in the comfort that we will take care of…
Enhancements and New Services coming onboard
The MPexchange 2016 product brings an additional range of services now available to all Manage Protect partners: Connectwise Integration for automated billing iPad/IPhone apps for partners, and end customers. Skype for Business Mailbox backup services AppID/ConnectID (cloud secure single sign on) Various Office 365 complimentary bundles.
MParchive upgrade in June/July
During the months of July & August Manage Protect will be commencing the upgrade of the existing Intel based archive customers, over to our new MParchive platform 100% hosted in Australia. We are very aware that the existing platform has had a number of performance issues over the past few months and we are very excited to be able to provide a true business grade platform that is designed from…