Product News:
Scan iSeries Mail for Viruses with StandGuard Anti-Virus
This significant enhancement to StandGuard Anti-Virus provides the ability to scan electronic mail messages passing through the OS/400 Mail Server Framework (MSF) for viruses and malicious programs, including header exploits and malformed MIME. Read the press release.

Product News:
SMS/GSM Notification Becomes a Standard for Messenger Suite
With the increasing popularity of SMS/GSM notification devices, specifically in North America, and with the recent announcement that AT&T is moving from TAP to SMS/GSM standards, Bytware’s Messenger products support of this emerging protocol has been enhanced. Read the press release.

Product News:
IBM ServerProven certificate awarded to MessengerConsole
The MessengerConsole solution was recently granted the “ServerProven” certification by IBM. Well known as the industry’s leading systems monitoring and LPAR console management solution, MessengerConsole is a comprehensive and easy-to-implement consoling solution designed for centrally managing events occurring on local, remote, and partitioned iSeries systems.
Read the press release.

Survivor Bytware:
VOTE for your favorite Bytware Ad from 2003, Select the December Ad
Who Will Survive? The battle for ad supremacy is heating up! It’s been an exciting year on the island of Bytware, with all sorts of successes and mishaps involving our 10 contestants. Now it’s time for you to cast your vote. Help us choose which ad will run in the December issues of eServer iSeries Edition and iSeries NEWS magazines. The ad that receives the most votes will grace the pages! View the contestants and cast your vote!

Important Industry News:
AT&T drops TAP paging protocol
AT&T Wireless text messaging on the TAP gateway has been discontinued by AT&T as of August 31, 2003. Bytware values our AT&T customers and therefore has developed an enhancement to the Messenger product line that provides support for sending SMS messages. Read the press release.

Virus Alert:
Lovesan, Nachi, and SoBig.F Make for Active August
We are seeing a move from the days of viruses being mere annoyances to a new world in which viruses can wreak real havoc on our economy and infrastructure, and August was one of the worst months ever for attacks. Get more info on the affects of these viruses on business. View the stories.

Tech Tip:
Create and Log Custom Events in MessengerNT
Did you know you can use Microsoft’s Logevent.exe (Event Logging utility) to create and log custom events to the Application Log of Event Viewer? You can then use MessengerNT to send these events to your iSeries where they are monitored by MessengerPlus or MessengerConsole. Find out more. (Requires a valid Bytware MessengerNT support user ID and password.)

Tech Tip:
Determining e-mail Addresses Automatically with Messenger
Did you know that MessengerPlus 5.56 will allow you to determine which e-mail address a notification is sent to based on the user associated with the system message? Find out how. (Requires a valid Bytware MessengerPlus support user ID and password.)

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