After somewhat longer beta period than initially expected, Zentyal Development Team is glad to announce that the upgrade tool to migrate from Zentyal 2.0 to Zentyal 2.2 is now ready! Special thanks go to all those Zentyal users who helped in the testing process and gave useful feedback to improve the tool!

Information on how to use the tool, known issues, etc. is available at the Trac. As migrating a production server is a complex task that may lead to problems, it is recommended to do the migration out of office hours, making sure that it is possible to restore a backup if anything goes wrong during the process.

If you come up with any issues, please report through the Forum. On the other hand, if you have a critical production environment and you want to count on Zentyal Development Team’s help for the migration, you can always opt for commercial support.

Enjoy the new Zentyal 2.2 server!

Zentyal Development Team is glad to announce that the first version of Zentyal Migration Tool for Windows Server is now available. This tool aims at making the migration process from existing Windows server environments to Zentyal-based Linux environments significantly easier.

At the moment the Zentyal Migration Tool includes Active Directory synchronization and exportation of basic DHCP and DNS settings from Windows servers to Zentyal. The tool is made available together with extensive documentation, as well as detailed information on how to migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Linux with Zentyal and Zarafa Groupware.

Please let us know through the Forum if you come up with any issues or have any suggestions for improvements. Our aim is to progressively improve this tool, allowing to extract more data to make the replacement of Windows servers with Zentyal as easy as possible.

Zentyal, developer of the Zentyal Linux small business server, announced today the program for upcoming Zentyal Summit 2011, that will take place on the 11th and 12th of November in Zaragoza, Spain. Zentyal Summit offers a meeting place to share experiences, meet and discuss with other Zentyal users and developers, discuss the roadmap of the next release and attend training sessions.

Keynote speaker of the Summit is Roberto Galoppini, Senior Director of Business Development at SourceForge, who has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. His talk “From Projects to Products” will take a look on how open source projects can turn in to commercially viable products and how SourceForge can help in the process.

The Summit program covers a large number of topics related to Zentyal, from commercial aspects to Zentyal server use cases, community talks and technical workshops, aimed at current and potential Zentyal customers, partners, community members and users. There is no registration fee for participating in the event, but seats are limited so early registration is highly recommended. Both the program and registration form can be found at the Summit website.

Zentyal Summit 2011 will be held right after the Libre Software World Conference 2011, that will take place in Zaragoza on the 9th and 10th of November. The Summit is sponsored by the Local Government of Aragón, Zaragoza City Council, Business Consortium for Open Source Software in Aragón (CESLA) and National Reference Center for ICT Based on OSS (CENATIC).

The Zentyal Development Team announced today the release of Zentyal 2.2, a new major release of the Zentyal Linux small business server. Zentyal aims at providing small and medium businesses a professional, reliable and secure server solution, that is yet easy to use and affordable.

Zentyal 2.2 introduces major performance improvements, reducing the installation time and improving the user interface responsiveness by 30%. Besides, a number of usability improvements have taken place, making the server installation, configuration and management easier and more accessible for SMB users with no earlier experience on Linux.

This version features fully new Captive Portal module, that offers the possibility to limit user access to the Internet through a login page. Captive portals are typically used at WiFi hotspots, but also in wired networks at hotels, schools or airports where users need to authenticate prior gaining Internet access.

In addition, Zentyal 2.2 introduces a bunch of new features, such as IPsec and, PPTP support, Administrator audit logging, Virtual machine management, Zarafa 7 integration, Ad-blocker or the ability to run Zentyal from a USB stick. Moreover, to celebrate the new release, improved free Basic Subscription was recently launched to give users access to basic alerts, reports, remote monitoring and management options directly from the Zentyal Cloud at no cost.

Zentyal users are invited to participate in Zentyal Summit 2011, to be held on November 11-12, to learn more about this version and discuss the roadmap of the next stable Zentyal version.

For additional information, please check out the Detailed Announcement or the full changelog.

Zentyal announced today the preliminary program for the upcoming Zentyal Summit 2011, that is to be held in November 11-12, in Zaragoza, Spain. The current draft version includes talks given by Zentyal Development Team on topics such as: Business opportunities based on Zentyal, Zentyal vs. Windows solutions for small and medium businesses and Zentyal 3.0 roadmap.

In addition, an open discussion on Zentyal community governance has been included to the program, as well as three practical workshops: Zentyal server maintenance with Zentyal Cloud, Best practices deploying a Zentyal Server and How to customize Zentyal configuration files (by using hooks and templates). Partners’, users’ and community’s interests and requirements have been taken into account when defining this preliminary program.

The call for talks will close on the 24th of September. Both submitted and anticipated talk proposals are being taken into account and the definitive program will be announced in October. Potential speakers are encouraged to submit their talk proposals and it is also possible to register to the event at the Zentyal Summit website.

About Zentyal Summit
Zentyal Summit offers a meeting place to share experiences, meet and discuss with other Zentyal users and developers, discuss the roadmap of the next release, attend training sessions or take the ZeCA certification exam. The summit is open to all and it is specially aimed at current and potential Zentyal customers, partners, community members and users.

Zentyal Summit 2011 will be held right after the Libre Software World Conference 2011, that will take place in Zaragoza on the 9th and 10th of November. There is no registration fee for participating in Zentyal Summit, but seats are limited so early registration is highly recommended.

A new, stable version of Zentyal (Zentyal 2.2) will be released on the 14th of September 2011 and the Zentyal Development Team will be happy to celebrate the occasion with friends, fans, users and customers with a release party!

The party will be held in Zaragoza (Spain), city where the project started and everybody is warmly welcome to paint the town red together with Zentyal Team and enjoy a concert by the local band Iron Maños. The exact address of the party is: La Bóveda/Albergue de Zaragoza, C/ Predicadores 70, Zaragoza.

Confirm you participation at event’s Facebook page. If you are too far to attend, hold your Zentyal Release Party in your own town – Simply add the coordinates and the time of the party in the event’s Facebook page comments!

The Zentyal Development Team is glad to announce the launch of the Zentyal Community Documentation! This initiative, proposed by Zentyal community members, aims at offering community members a space where they can share useful how-tos, tips, scenarios, screencasts and any other type of information considered useful to other Zentyal server users.

The Zentyal Community Documentation is made available in wiki format and anyone registered in the Zentyal Forum is free to add new wiki pages or to modify them in the Community Documentation Repository. Please note that by contributing you accept the Zentyal Contributor Agreement (ZCA) and your contribution is published under Creative Commons “Attribution-Share Alike” license.

Zentyal Development Teams believes that the community documentation offers a great chance to complete the official documentation with practical use cases, as well as to gather together and structure all the information that until now has been scattered in Forum boards or blogs. In the next weeks we will be going through the documentation we could add and we’re also looking forward to receiving your contributions!

Zentyal has joined the campaign that supports the “International Free and Open Source Software Community” as a candidate for Prince of Asturias Award 2011 and challenges the Zentyal community to support the campaign. Prince of Asturias Awards are prestigious international prizes given to individuals, entities and/or organizations who make notable achievements in the fields of science, culture and humanities. Earlier laureates include World Health Organization, Al Gore, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others.

“The International FOSS Community is a nominee in the International Collaboration category, that awards the work that has contributed to mutual understanding, progress and brotherhood among nations in an exemplary and significant way” said Ignacio Correas, CEO of Zentyal and member of the CENATIC Advising Board that proposed this nomination. “The International FOSS Community, with a disruptive new model of technology development based on the disinterested contributions by individuals from all over the world, has definitely helped closing the technology gap and fostering innovation from the world as a whole. We cannot figure out a better candidate for the award.”

Anyone can support the nomination by filling a digital endorsement form at the campaign’s web page, downloading and sending an endorsement letter or downloading and adding a campaign seal or banner to their websites or blogs. In addition, your help in spreading the campaign’s message further or obtaining a maximum number of significant supporters of the sector would be greatly appreciated.

eBox Platform CTO, Javier Uruen and Isaac Clerencia (Developer/Analyst) participate in Fosdem`09 that is held this year in Brussels, Belgium, on 7th and 8th of February. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Development European Meeting) is a free and non-commercial event aiming to provide Free and Open Source developers a place to meet.

If you are interested in meeting with eBox Platform crew, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@ebox-platform.com. We’ll be staying in Brussels until Monday, 9th of February.

On past Tuesday 14th October eBox 1.0rc1 was publicly presented in an event hosted at the Aragon Institute of Technology with the support of the Government of Aragon and the City Council of Zaragoza. This is the first preview of eBox 1.0, including all the functionality that was planned in the beginning of the development of eBox four years ago.

During the event, which was attended by some 120 managers and professionals of the IT industry in the region, the commercial strategy of eBox Tehcnologies was unveiled, together with its business development plan. eBox Technologies is an spin-off from Warp Networks, founded in order to launch eBox to the market and continue its development.

The event has had wide media coverage in the printed regional papers and on the online sites, such as europapress, aragoninvestiga, cenatic, opensourceworldconference or somoslibres.org among many others.