ContactOffice is a single application comprising interconnected tools; in that respect, we thought that the search feature, which was tool-specific, could be fully redesigned, and we’ve just done it:

Search available in all tools: you could already perform searches in Messages, Documents and Contacts. We added Calendars, Forums, Wikis, Notes and Bookmarks. In addition, a single [...]

The group administrator, along with the group co-administrators, decide who may add content in the group: group Calendar, group Documents folders, group Bookmarks, etc. The places within groups where you can add content now appear with a special icon. In the example below, you can add content in Folder B only.

This release also contains many [...]

More and more people pay attention to new technologies, that’s why Belgian media regularly highlight new media pioneers. Cloud computing is one of these new technologies: it’s Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid (wikipedia).
ContactOffice and especially Mr. Arnaud Huret (ContactOffice’s [...]

Sometimes you need to create an event which is very similar to an existing one. Instead of creating this event from scratch, you can duplicate the existing one, using its contextual menu. All properties will be identical: schedule, colors, availability, etc. but also reminders, periodicity, participants, access rights and attachments. You can make the necessary [...]

One of our customers, Alliance Française at Rio de Janero (Brasil) created three great videos explaining “how to access the virtual office”, “how to create a group” and “how to join a group”. It is a pleasure to share these videos with you:
How to access the virtual office:

Access the virtual office’s website (www.contactoffice.com or www.mail.be [...]

CloudStorm is a new style event launched in 2009 where visitors receive in 100 minutes, an update of the latest trends and products in Cloud Computing by innovating cloud companies, followed by a small expo and networking opportunities.
Each event covers different topics like: Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Cloud Platform as [...]

UNIZO is an organization that represents self-employed independants in Belgium. One of its goals is to inform Belgian self-employed independants about new and interesting concepts available in multiple domains : networks, informatics, law, etc.
One of the main characteristics of a self-employed independant is that he doesn’t have the time and money to invest into complex and [...]

Search in Messages and Documents has been redesigned. This is a first step to a series of new features that will be available in a near future.
The “contains” criterion replaces the “all text fields” option. If you want to narrow your search, you can use other criteria such as document name or last modification date [...]

ContactOffice is always present at every good CloudComputing or collaborative solutions event in Europe. Once again, ContactOffice will be present at one of the largest Collaboration events in France on 5 and 6 mai 2010: “Salon Intranet” in Paris.
Working remotely, share, collaborate, federate employees, inform, promote learning and innovate… Intranet becomes a necessary business enterprise [...]

The “Paul-Henri Spaak” higher school has selected ContactOffice as messaging and collaborative solution. Leader on the French higher education market, ContactOffice now enters the Belgian market with this first higher school located in Brussels.
Administrative staff and teachers have been using their new collaboration platform for a few weeks. Thanks to their customized virtual office, they [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface version 1.8.003, currently available on ContactOffice servers.
This is a minor version, containing only bug fixes:

Wiki: Pages were not displayed immediately anymore; you needed to refresh them.
Groups: Search had disappeared in the Groups tool.
Groups: In the member list, you could not display the details of a member anymore. [...]

All French-speaking ContactOffice Education customers were invited to participate to the 2010 edition of the ContactOffice Education Days, on March 24th and 25th in Paris.
The meeting gathered representatives from 16 education entities (universities, high schools, secondary schools) at the Belgian Embassy, just a few steps away from the famous Arc de Triomphe.
This annual event [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface version 1.8.001, currently available on ContactOffice servers.
“Quit” button now appears on the right
The “Quit” button has not disappeared, you will find it on the right, in last position.

Use this button to leave your virtual office in a secure way: just closing the browser window does not end [...]

One important aspect to think about when choosing cloud applications is reversibility. One does not want to be stuck in a proprietary format with no possibility of recuperating one’s data.
We are aware that every person wishing to opt for a cloud based collaboration solution already has a calendar, emails etc. Thus, every person wants to [...]

The SynchroExpress software synchronizes ContactOffice with your computer. Your computer can then synchronize with mobile devices. This way, you can synchronize ContactOffice with mobile devices.
The latest SynchroExpress version (3.0 - build 3052) has been released and allows synchronizing ContactOffice with:

Outlook (all versions, including 2007)
Devices running on Microsoft Mobile (via Outlook)
Synchronize your mobile device with Outlook. [...]

Here are the release notes for Advanced interface versions 1.7.003 and 1.7.004, currently available on ContactOffice servers.
Display most hours of the day in the Calendar
We received feedback about the Advanced interface calendar displaying “less content” than its Classic interface counterpart: some events are not displayed in the visible part of the Calendar. Of course, you [...]

The “Messages” tool centralizes e-mails (including e-mails from third-party servers using our POP3 and IMAP clients), SMS and faxes. To get access to this tool and its numerous features (such as powerful antispam and antivirus, tags, protection against scripts, POP3 and IMAP servers, etc.), you need to create your ContactOffice e-mail address first.
This following [...]

It is not always easy to stay connected to the Internet when we travel and there is not always a wifi connection available. So, sometimes it might be difficult to access your online agenda and work with it.
But since ContactOffice is an IMAP server as well as a CalDav server; in addition to map your [...]

After 10 years of good service, the previous version just retired today as ContactOffice launched its new website. So long old chap, you did a great job.
From now on, users going to www.contactoffice.com will be logging into the Advanced interface, now selected by default. The Advanced interface benefits from all the new features and improvements [...]

CloudStorm is a new style event launched in 2009 where visitors receive in 100 minutes, an update of the latest trends and products in Cloud Computing by innovating cloud companies, followed by a small expo and networking opportunities.
Each event covers different topics like: Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Cloud Platform as a Service and certainly [...]

CUME (Club des Utilisateurs de Micro-ordinateurs dans l’Education), founded in Rennes (FR) in 1984 is a computer users association which aims to gather people working in IT departments in schools and universities.
The activities of CUME are oriented towards three main themes:

New hardware and software platforms (Windows, Unix, Linux)
Educational use of networks, Internet, …
Educational use of [...]

Creation of EuroCloud Belgium
On January 12th 2010, ContactOffice became founding member and administrator of the newly created EuroCloud Belgium association.
EuroCloud is a European network of local SaaS and Cloud computing communities, launched at the end of 2009 by Pierre-José Billote, President and founding member of the ASP Forum. EuroCloud is present in all over Europe: [...]

Using multiple email accounts at the same time
Almost everybody has at least one private and one professional email address. When you use ContactOffice as default professional email address (ex: me@contactoffice.com), you can also consolidate your other private (and professional) email accounts in ContactOffice’s interface in order to have all your mails in one single interface. [...]

Dear all,
We had to perform an unplanned maintenance on our servers Wednesday 13th of January between 00:03 CET to 07:35 CET. All services were not accessible during this maintenance, except the SMTP services that were still accepting incoming emails.
Sorry for this inconvenience,
Arnaud

If you want to share your agenda of the day or of the week or even of the month, you can do it thanks to ContactOffice’s RSS feed: select your personal agenda, give view rights on public access and share the RSS link to your contacts.

Dear users,
You might experience difficulties in reaching www.mail.be and www.contactoffice.be.
Our domain hoster (www.hostbasket.com) apparently had a Domain Name Server configuration issue on both mail.be and contactoffice.be. Unfortunately, this problem is completely out of our control and responsibility. Although the right configs have been re-setup this morning around 08:30 am CET, the propagation of the [...]

When you want to organise a meeting, invite users in a group or create a list, the normal use of ContactOffice is to select users into the user’s adressbook or in the group’s adressbook. The disadvantage is that the adressbook does not always contain all the contacts needed.
As from now, within the framework of a [...]

MARSEILLE, December 7, 2009 - Together with ContactOffice leader of collaborative applications on the French market, the University of Marseille 3 has developed a contingency plan that helps maintain a link between teaching faculty and students, even in cases of pandemic influenza A / H1N1. A first in the French academic world.

The University of [...]

Hi,
Paris was the third stop for CloudStorm and followed a successful launch in Brussels in early September and an event in London in October.
The CloudStorm event gives its visitors the chance to quickly understand both technical and business benefits of cloud solutions directly from the vendor and to meet after their presentatoins. Once again, CloudStorm [...]

TLS (Transport Layer Security) is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communications over networks. It can be used for email, instant messaging, VoIP, web browsing, Internet faxing…
In order to increase security within ContactOffice’s solution, ContactOffice’s SMTP server now supports the TLS protocol for regular SMTP sessions, and authenticated ones. Let’s explain this last case: [...]