Pre-Release of EMA 3.60 by Artec

ARTEC Computer GmbH announced that EMA release 3.60 will soon be shipped. The 3.60 release contains the new Hot Standby feature as well as several smaller enhancements.

New Hot Standby Feature
The optionally available Hot Standby feature allows manual and automatic synchronization of a standby appliance. This creates an independent index on the standby appliance, greatly increasing the availability of an EMA E-Mail Archive appliance, because service can be restored faster when an outage occurs. An EMA appliance coupled with a hot standby appliance can generally be compared with an Active/Passive cluster system.
            
Any existing Standby device can be upgraded to a Hot Standby Appliance.
            
Ability to Decommission EMA / Temporarily
Take it Out of Service
This feature makes it possible to take a replacement appliance into operation in a controlled manner. When using this feature, all further archiving (acceptance of E-Mail, etc.) is disabled and searches are no longer able to be performed (because this would create new entries in the secure log file). Any configuration changes that are not immediately replicated (e.g. delegates, saved user searches, deletion lists, and the secure log file) will also be written out to the external storage. After EMA is taken out of service, it can be reactivated at any time.
            
Configuration Backups
Configuration backups automatically created by EMA can now be directly restored from storage groups.
      
Faster Restore
The recreation of the index is now performed without any delays. This speeds up the process of making large amounts of archived data available to users.

Enhanced File Indexing
Documents in HWP format (a format used by the Korean Hangul Office suite) can now be indexed. Additionally, indexing MS Works and WordPerfect documents has been improved.

Multipath
The multipath hardware compatibility was improved. Many hardware platforms from vendors such as HP, IBM, Netapp, and others have been made compatible and are now certified by us.
            
Internal Cache
The Raid system for the internal cache can now also be repaired as a preventive measure, even if there are only warnings and no actual errors (EMA E4000 and 8000 only).
        
Support for Port Numbers
Path and port numbers can now be defined freely for printers shared over HTTP connections. This makes it easier to integrate Print2Archive into existing infrastructures.
         
New Printers
New printers (Konica Minolta, Minolta QMS) were added.
         
Change of Codepage
The codepage shown to Windows clients has been changed from ISO 8859-1 to UTF8. This allows document titles that are not compatible with the ISO 8859-1 character set to be correctly displayed in search results after a print job completes.
       
Support for Windows 7
EMA MailImport Enterprise and Standard Edition are now compatible with Windows 7. In addition to improved compatibility, the software also makes use of the new display capabilities in the operating system by showing detailed progress information in the task bar.
     
Enhanced Source Selection
MailImport Enterprise Edition can now import messages from a folder with messages in RFC822 format without messages having to be explicitly assigned to one account on EMA. It is also possible to modify how account information is extracted from the individual messages.
        
New Manuals
This version makes updates of the manuals available under the Information | Software & Downloads page. In addition to a new design, many new chapters have been added and care has been taken to add explanations on how to configure EMA in conjunction with many new mail server combinations and configurations.
            
Configuration File
The EMA web interface now shows which settings are stored in the configuration file and what will be restored when a restore is performed.
 
Remote Support
Remote support can now be started using the Management Console.