Pylon Anywhere 6

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Pylon Anywhere 6

• Target New Features

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Agenda

• Release Schedule
• High Level Feature Overview
• Detailed Feature Information

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Pylon Anywhere 6 Schedule

• Release Dates
• Beta/Limited Availability in mid-November 2004
• Full GA release end of Dec 2004
• November Beta Features
• Architecture, Client and Server enhancements
• No localization will be introduced in full GA
  release
• 5.5.4 may still be appropriate for customers with
  FIGS requirements until Dec release

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Agenda

• Release Schedule
• High Level Feature Overview
• Detailed Feature Information

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Pylon Anywhere 6 New Features

• Architecture Enhancements
• Unicode Support
• Security Enable install of redirector component
  in DMZ (removes requirement for IIS is DMZ less
  ports need to be opened not in beta release)
• Clustering support improvements install and
  management
• Switching to SUN JVM
• Lightweight polling support allows for
  push-like capabilities for Domino servers on
  non-Windows platforms (i.e. AIX)

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Pylon Anywhere 6 New Features

• Device Features
• Treo 600/650 background syncing support, more
  UI refinement
• Support for XHTML - for better browsing
  experience (mainly aimed at Asian market)
• SyncML 1.2 adds email to current calendar and
  contact sync
• Real-time Domino Directory lookup from device
• Japanese language client (Web, PPC and XHTML)

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Pylon Anywhere 6 New Features

• Server Features
• Improved Active Directory Integration
• Ability to make Pylon Anywhere Server act more
  like an IMAP server allows for propagation of
  deletes, read/unread, and inbox sync from IMAP
  clients
• Web-based server administration user/device
  management, log viewing, profile setting

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Pylon Anywhere 6 New Features

• Sys Mgmt and File Sync Add-ons
• Power On Password enhancements
• Improvements to publication attributes,
  subscription and distribution
• Palm-specific enhancements

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Agenda

• Release Schedule
• High Level Feature Overview
• Detailed Feature Information

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Unicode

• Full UTF-16 support
• Better support for international businesses
• Will install on some non-English operating
  systems (FIGS and Japanese)
• Will accept non-English character sets
  (usernames, email PIM data)
• Server is still English language
• Clients in English, French, Italian, German and
  Spanish (EFIGS) and Japanese
• Except for
• Palm, which doesnt support it. EFIGS only.

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Secure Gateway

• Outbound-initiated ports only in inner firewall
• No Windows in DMZ option (can run on Linux no
  IIS req)
• Handles push and sync channels (no SyncML or
  WebPIM)

Behind-the-firewall
DMZ
Internet
Outbound-initiated, port 80
Sync, Push
Secure Gateway Sun JVM, Linux
Pylon AnywhereServer
Exchange/Domino
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Clustering Improvements

• Ability to install groups of servers for load
  balancing and failover
• Allows for installations to scale to multiple
  thousands of users
• Server settings moved into single database
• Improved installation, configuration and
  maintenance

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Domino improvements

• Push on non-Windows Domino using lightweight
  polling
• Unix Domino installs (ie. AIX)
• Flexibility for push on distributed Domino
  environments

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Treo 600/650 (Palm OS) Improvements

• Background sync
• User Interface refinement
• Focus improvements
• Capitalization enhancements
• Usability improvements

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SyncML 1.2

• Latest version of SyncML DS spec
• Mostly in Europe
• Adds email to the current contacts calendar
• Specific features supported in 6.0
• iCalendar
• Email
• Stop/Resume
• Note No SyncML 1.2 devices on the market as of
  Nov 2004.

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Japanese client experience

• Compact HTML WebPIM for iMode browsers
• Majority of Asian market today
• Limited admin reporting
• English available also
• Japanese UI for desktop WebPIM and PocketPC

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Active Directory Improvements

• Improved user/group synchronization
• Mailbox discovery

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IMAP Groupware

• Syncs and pushes incoming email
• Read/unread marks, deletions, folders
• Smart Forwarding
• Outgoing emails delivered to SMTP per IMAP spec
• Keeping old IMAP import support for AOL, etc
• No PIM data support from IMAP server -- email
  only
• Certified with SendMail IMAP server only

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IMAP Groupware
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IMAP Server Interface

• For phones that have IMAP clients, but no Pylon
  Anywhere client
• Phones of minimal intelligence

IMAP Inbox
SMTP Outbox
Pylon Anywhere Server
Exchange, Domino, etc.
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Web-based site administration

• Site Admin feature provides basic-level
  administration features through a web UI
• Admin logins control the selection of users
  viewed through the Site Admin feature
• Accessible features are
• Create/Remove a user
• View user devices and current sync status
• View user sync log
• Assign a profile to a user
• Theft/Loss Protection

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Over-the-air (OTA) Installation

• Provides automatic client upgrades without having
  to connect device to cradle
• Initial install still via wired connection
• Not available in beta release targeted for GA