BlueMind's Professional Subscription

Building upon its Open Source software, BlueMind's professional offering seeks to allow long-term in production use with complete peace of mind.

The professional offering incorporates software versions guaranteed and supported by BlueMind SAS, unlimited software patches and scalable updates. It also includes additional components and tools, making it easier to operate and integrate into an information system.

The professional offering – "BlueMind Subscription" – is the solution you cannot go without to ensure your system remains operational.

Subscription Contents 

The BlueMind Subscription includes:

• The BlueMind Open Source software in guaranteed, supported versions 
• updates
• upgrades through new BlueMind versions
• an administration tool that allows you to apply updates graphically
• additional components:
  • an Active Directory connector
  • an Outlook synchronization tool

Guaranteed versions with vendor support 

The BlueMind Subscription includes identified, vendor-supported versions with updates and upgrades. 

Update tool

BlueMind's update tool is straightforward, secure and fast so that updates not remain virtual and are quickly applied.  

To ensure scalability, the subscription incorporates a graphical administration tool that enables you to carry out software updates and upgrades. The client can decide when to perform the update and the tool that carries it out.

Uses

Features

The BlueMind professional offering brings you specific solutions and tools, specifically:

• setting up and using the Outlook connector

• interfacing with Active Directory

• BlueMind updates

Simple accounts

The BlueMind subscription enables you to create "simple" accounts, i.e. accounts with minimum features – mail and contacts.

These accounts are set up through user roles. Roles can be assigned individually, but for increased safety, BlueMind recommends that you use a dedicated group:

• Create a group, e.g. named "simple-accounts"
• Enable the boxes "Hide BlueMind address lists" in order to hide that group in the directory
• Go to the group's administration page:
  • Mail: select "No mail" which means that this group does not have a mailbox
  • Archiving: do not enable anything
  • Roles: this is where the items users have access to are set. Select the following only:
    • Mail and Contacts
    • Modify settings
    • Change password
    • Manage mail filters
    • Manage identities

All you need to do next is add the desired users to this group for them to have the appropriate rights:

• Create a user and go to their administration card (or go to an existing user's administration card)
• General tab, "Account information": click the link "Modify group memberships"
• Remove any groups that may grant higher roles (including the "user" default group)
• Add the "simple-accounts" group