This document outlines an agenda for a Zimbra webinar on demonstrating Zimbra Collaboration Suite administration capabilities. The agenda includes discussing Zimbra's recent acquisition by VMware, upcoming product updates, and a demo of the Zimbra administration console. The webinar aims to help Zimbra partners better understand and showcase Zimbra's administration features to customers.

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Zimbra Partners Webinar:
Demoing Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Administration Capabilities
January 19, 2010
Andy Pflaum, andy.pflaum@zimbra.com, Zimbra Global Channels and Bus. Development
Andrew Shingler, andrew.shingler@zimbra.com, Zimbra Sr. Systems Engineer
Anup Patwardhan, anup.patwardhan@zimbra.com, Zimbra Head of Systems Engineering

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Agenda
• Zimbra Acquisition by VMware
• Zimbra Partner Program Updates
• Zimbra 6.0.5 update
• Zimbra Administration Features
• Zimbra Administration Components
• Demoing ZCS Administration Console
− Preparation
− Key Messages to Convey
− Doing the Demo
− Resources – demo script and recorded example
• Q&A

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Upcoming Partner Webinar
Save the Date….
 Thurs. Feb 25 (tentative):
“Previews of ZCS v7.0 and Zimbra Desktop 2.0”

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Zimbra Acquisition by VMware
• Announced January 12, expected to close during Q1 2010
• Why?
− Better fit for Zimbra as part of an enterprise technology leader
− Common view on virtualization benefits and need for cost-effective
email/collaboration solutions for organizations of all sizes and service
providers
− VMware's channel focus
• What will stay the same?
− Business as usual (though moreso….)
− Zimbra team moves over
− Continued open source product & commitment
− No anticipated changes to partner status, etc.
− Generally no effect on existing deals
• What will change?
− accelerated product development
− expanded QA and support resources
− improved business processes
− more channel resources

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Zimbra Acquisition by VMware
More Information
• Zimbra Blog,
http://www.zimbrablog.com/blog/archives/2010/01/zimbra-to-join-vmw
• VMware Press Release,
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/zimbra.html
• VMware CTO Blog,
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2010/01/vmware-to-acquire-zimbra.h
• Zimbra Q&A about the deal,
http://www.zimbra.com/about/vmware-acquires-zimbra-qa.html

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Partner Program: What’s Coming in 2010
• Platform for lead referrals, and deal registration by top partners
• Online training tools for sales and technical sales
• Improved documentation / collateral
− “2-pager” sales guide
− TCO calculator tool
• More joint marketing
− Joint webinars with partners
− Partner case studies
− Support for local partner events and training
• “Zimbra Days” in local markets, with support from Zimbra
• New webinar tool (objectives = reliable, high-quality VoIP, Linux access)

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Zimbra 2-Page Sales Guide
Available later this week from the Zimbra Partner Portal

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Zimbra 2-Page Sales Guide
Available later this week from the Zimbra Partner Portal

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v6.0.5 (scheduled early February)
Dozens of bug fixes, performance improvements and minor
new features.
Full details can be learned from the Zimbra Product
Management Portal at: http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_patch.php?
patch=6_0_5&status=Future&rel=6.0&relName=GunsNRoses&prod=zcs

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v6.0.5 (early Feb.)
HIGHLIGHTS
• “FH_DATE_PAST_20XX - Spamassassin incorrect tagging from today”:
introduced in 6.0.4, false positives for some messages from January 2010
(Bug 43766, http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43766)
• Sorting of items in Briefcase by filename, date, size
(Bug 25220, http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=25220)
• Allow/disallow users to set their own Zimlets
(Bug 41080, http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=41080)
• SpamAssassin update & command line tools: allows updates to
SpamAssassin, for better effectiveness than unmodified SpamAssassin
(Bug 27844, http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=27844)
• Updated Zimlet Documentation
http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=ZCS_6.0:Zimlet_Developers_Guide:Introduction

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Zimbra Desktop 2.0 Beta
• Beta1 scheduled for early February (GA for early June)
• Details at http://pm.zimbra.com/pm_release.php?rel=2.0&prod=zd

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Zimbra Admin Console Demo

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Admin Console Demo Script – 4 pages
Available later this week in the Zimbra Partner Portal (https://support.zimbra.com/partner),
along with a recording of this demo

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ZCS Admin & Management Features
Key Features
• Multi-domain/multi-server admin, incl.
delegated admin roles
• ‘Class of Service’ structure
• Single-copy store of msgs & attachments
• Support for Hierarchical Storage
Management (HSM)
• Online mailbox backup/restore/move
• Support for clustering/HA
• Integrated AS/AV
• Attachment blocking/conversion
• Queue management
Flexible Admin. Options
1.AJAX Admin Console
2.CLI Interface
3.Java Interface
4.SOAP Interface: APIs for all functions

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Zimbra Components
• Open Source components
• Front-end components
− Postfix MTA – Processing all incoming and outgoing messages
−Nginx Proxy – Connection point for all types of clients (web,
offline and mobile)
• Back-end components
−MySQL – Stores the metadata information. Examples include calendar
appointments, mail folders, read/unread status of messages.
− Lucene – Index all mailbox data for searching.
− OpenLDAP – Directory store
− Mailbox Store – all client services

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Zimbra Administration Options
• Administration User Interface
− Allows for Delegated Administration
− Real-time monitoring
• Command Line Utilities
− Batch processing
− Reporting
• SOAP APIs
− Single Sign-on integration
− Provisioning and Customer On-boarding integration

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Administration Demo Topics
• Preparation for the Demo
• Overview – Zimbra Administration UI
• Addresses
• Configuration
• Monitoring
• Tools
• Delegated Administration

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Key References
• Zimbra Whitepapers
http://www.zimbra.com/products/documentation_whitepapers.html
• Zimbra Administration and Installation Documents
http://www.zimbra.com/products/documentation.html

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Q&A