Jocelyn's Broken Arm

Jocelyn's Broken Arm

Jocelyn continued our proud tradition of bodily damage during a netball game by breaking her radius bone last Wednesday. In case you're wondering, yes she IS right-handed. Colin is calling for a halt to all future netball games in case we damage Jay as well.

Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 SP1

Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 was released on 18th March and is approved for use in Cortex managed hosting environments. The update must be applied to all servers including the servers that host the Cortex provisioning engine component. The update can be downloaded directly from Support.microsoft.com - Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 SP1

Key Cortex team members (and potential bloggers)

Oldest (By time in company not age)

Tim Horner
Software Architect
Expert in software design, systems, performance monitoring, MSMQ, Exchange, AD, .net and a number of other dark arts. Tim has been with the company for just over 11 years and is the wise old man (who is still under 40) that is all knowing. Tim has deep knowledge of the Windows Operating System and has an ability to craft solutions to seemingly impossible problems. Tim is a keen squash player in his spare time.

Nigel Webster
Senior Solutions Consultant
Nigel works closely with our customers around the world and makes Cortex achieve the seemingly impossible. Nigel also enjoys the challenge of data migrations and spends much of his spare time dreaming about Microsoft Exchange and the challenges of multi-tenancy.

Aaron Lister
Cortex database guru.
This man keeps cortex running smoothly and consistently no matter how many services or users you throw at him. Aaron has done the hard yards with EMS-Cortex and has been with us for 9 years. Aaron enjoys multi-tasking, and as a sideline has developed automated installers for Cortex. Specialities include dealing with goalposts that are forever moving, performance tuning and easing our install and upgrade processes

Colin Williams
GM – Master of Ceremonies
Colin has been with the company for about 4 years, started off about four years ago as development manager and worked his way up. The overall strategic direction of the product can be credited to Colin as well.

Jay Strydom
Senior Software Developer
Once described as a team of developers, Jay has the capacity to deliver outstanding solutions, hard working with great enthusiasm for software, Jay leads the development of the core Cortex system. Jay is also currently completing a post graduate degree which encompasses both SaaS and Usability, both adding value to the Cortex product line. Jay follows the movies, likes rollerblading, snow boarding and various martial arts.

Selma Wei
Senior Engineer
Selma recently moved to our Hamilton office (Hamilton being New Zealands 4th largest city with a population of 23 people and thousands of cows), Selma is incredibly hard working and knows more about Cortex than Cortex itself. Selma has been with us for over four years and is one of our greatest assets. When not helping customers, Selma can be found competing in Ceroc dancing competitions.

Jocelyn Brittain
Development Manager
Master of Developers. Jocelyn is in charge of our release schedule, testing and documentation. She keeps the developers on track and makes sure what we promise gets delivered. Jocelyn has been with the company for 3 years. Jocelyn has also imported dogs and recently found a new way to drink vodka for charity.

Daniel Thurston
Globetrotting Sales Manager
Daniel has been with Cortex for just over a year, Daniels favourite subject is Cortex, whether in the office, car, at home or in the pub Daniel is always willing to discuss the benefits of our core product. A geek at heart, Daniel likes his technology and enjoys helping customers to be more successful.

Sean McCarthy
Support Engineer
Sean has been with us for two years and works hard to keep all the Cortex's around the world running smoothly. When Sean's not at the office he can often be found playing the bass guitar with his band.

Murray Dudding
Installation Engineer
When Murray is not recovering from Rugby injuries, he'll be found installing new Cortex's for new customers. Murray is also captain of our Netball team (Note that in New Zealand Boys are allowed to play Netball - unlike the UK where it's a girls only game)

Welcome to the EMS-Cortex team blog

This blog is designed to share with you – our customers and soon to be customer the tips and tricks of using Cortex, as well as sharing what we are up to and what our plans are.

First of all what we do.
Cortex is a control panel for hosters to multitenant applications and delegate administration to customers and users. This makes it easy for you to host our supported applications, your own applications by integrating them with Cortex, and to tailor it to your requirements. We already have plug-ins for 16 applications with more on the way very shortly. These will be discussed in detail in future posts.

What we currently support:

Exchange 2003/2007 (incl Active sync and iPhone)
BlackBerry
SharePoint
Dynamics CRM 3.0/4.0
IIS6/7
SQL 2000/2005/2008
Terminal Service on Windows Server 2003/2008
Citrix Presentation Server/XenApp
File Sharing
DNS Management Msft/Bind on Linux
LCS/OCS/OCS R2

As we go through this we will update this blog with our future plans and how best to take advantage of what’s built in.

I look forward to talking with you all.