On the top navigation bar, click preferences.
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General preferences include these settings:
Contact information
Alert settings
Email templates
Auto login reminder
Display name
Export/import
Action log
Organization home page
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Contact information includes:
Name. The name of a contact person. This information is optional, and you can enter up to 128 characters.
Email. An email address at which the contact person can be reached. This email address is separate from the Alerts address. If you want to use the same address for both of these email contacts, you need to edit them separately.
Phone. A telephone number for the contact person.
To change contact information, click edit at the bottom of the form, type the new information in the text boxes, then click Save.
The alerts setting shows the address to which system-level email alert messages are sent. These alerts are the email messages sent to resource owners such as resellers and organizations sites when resource usage warning levels pool usage warning levels are reached. Email alerts are sent when service providers generate usage reports (either manually or according to a set schedule). Resellers and organization site administrators cannot manually update usage information.
Usage warning levels are the percentage of resource usage that triggers alerts. These levels are established when the system is set up. Service providers and resource owners set these levels when they manage pools and server resources. When a warning level is reached, email alerts are sent to resellers and organizations sites who own the resource so they can take action before resources are exhausted.
The email template settings determine the formats used when the system sends automated email messages. Automated messages include the welcome messages sent to new resellers, organizations, and resellers, sites, and users and warning messages about resource or quota levels. Options include:
Text. A simple format used for email. The text format is limited in that it cannot contain any formatting such as special fonts, font styles (such as bold and italic), indents, margins, or pictures. Plain text is the most portable format, however, because it is supported by nearly every application on every machine.
HTML. A format that uses HTML (hypertext markup language) coding. HTML supports text formatting, numbering, bullets, alignment, horizontal lines, pictures (including backgrounds), HTML styles, stationery, signatures, and linking to Web pages.
Email encoding. The method of converting characters for transmission through email. To display correctly, certain character sets require specific encoding. Choose from among the common encoding types or provide your own.
When you use auto login to access a control panel, a pop-up reminder is displayed. It enables you to confirm or cancel the auto-login, and it reminds you to click Log Out to return to your control panel when you are done.
If the box next to this setting is checked, The reminder is turned on. The pop-up is displayed whenever you use auto-login to access a control panel.
If the box is not checked, the reminder is turned off. The pop-up is not displayed.
By default, the auto-login reminder is turned on. You can change this setting at any time. The changes you make apply only to your control panel; they do not affect the settings of your resellers or organizations control panels.
The display name setting determines how organization usernames are stored by the Active Directory server. This property is used with service features such as the address book in Hosted Exchange 2003. Also, the display name preference determines how usernames are displayed on the organization's users list.
Options for this setting include:
Last Name First Name
First Name Last Name
Separator. You can choose what kind of character, space, or combination of characters and spaces you want to use to separate last name from first name. This is especially useful for languages that use special character sets.
Choose a single space for the names to display with only a space between them. To use special characters, click the radio button next to the text box, then type the characters in the box. Any combination of characters and spaces is allowed. By default, if you choose the text box, a comma (,) is used to separate the names.
The default setting is First name Last name. After you add an organization, the organization administrator can change the display name preference for the organization any time.
When users are added to organizations, their names are stored by the Active Directory server according to the current display name preferences. If you change the display name preferences in the service provider or reseller control panel, existing organizations user display names are not affected; their usernames are displayed either:
according to the preferences in effect when they were created, or
according to the preferences selected by the organization administrator.
However, if you change an existing user's properties, the new setting is applied to that user as well.
If you change the display name setting in the organization control panel, the change is applied to all existing users in the organization as well as to any new users that are created.
For organizations with many users, changing this setting at the organization level might take a long time.
You can change the display name preference any time.
Export/import settings determine what action the system takes when you export or import organizations and users. sites and users. users. You can change these settings at any time.
About the export/import feature
Export/import settings include:
Location. The server name and directory where configuration settings and data are exported to or imported from. Using Unify platform or hosting servers is not recommended; However, any Internet-accessible server with a shared folder that has full read and write permission to the MPFServiceAcct can be used for storing the export/import information. Specify the location using the UNC (uniform naming convention) for the server and directory. For example, \\<server_name>\<directory_name> where <server_name> is the host name of the server and <directory> is the path of the folder. The path of the directory on the Ensim Pro server where sites or users are exported to or imported from. For example, C:\Export. The location you specify must be a public shared folder with full read/write access.
Site import export type. User import export. The settings for importing organizations. sites. users. Settings include:
Config only. Export or import only the configuration settings of organizations sites users and not the data associated with them. Configuration settings include the options selected while adding a new or editing an existing organization site. user. For example, selection of the Enable mailing lists Web access flag in the IMAIL mail server service. Choose this setting if you do not need the data associated with organizations sites users or if you want to conserve server disk space.
Config and data. Export or import the configuration settings and all the service-specific data of organizations. sites. users. Service-specific data includes the options and the files or directories created and managed by the organization site administrator. For example, the names of mailing lists. Choose this setting if you want to capture all the information about organizations. sites. users. Depending on the amount of data, this might require a great deal of server disk space.
User option. The type of users you want to export or import when you export or import organizations. This option is applied to the service provider level only. Resellers and organization administrators can specify their own options for exporting and importing users in their organizations. Settings include:
All Users. Export or import the information of all the users in the organization. site.
Admin Only. Export or import the information of only the default administrator for the organization. site.
The action log setting determines the number of days action log entries are kept. Use this setting to keep the size of the action log page and the size of the action log database manageable. Entries older than the specified number of days are automatically removed each day. Once removed, entries cannot be recovered.
If you choose unlimited, entries are never removed.
You can change this setting at any time, but the change does not take effect until the next automatic daily removal.
The organization home page setting determines the view and functional capabilities of the first page that is displayed on logging in to the organization administrator control panel. Resellers and organization administrators can configure their own settings for their organizations.
You can choose one of the following home page views:
Classic
Dashboard
Once you configure the home page view, all organizations that you subsequently provision will display the selected home page until you or the organization administrator changes the setting. The default view is set to Classic. You can change the setting configured by your service provider at the time of provisioning the organization.
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