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About FaxPress 8.2/8.25 Software
A reliable, feature rich, and cost effective network faxing solution.
Network Operating Systems
FaxPress can be installed in most network operating environments. FaxPress server does not contain a hard disk. Its system software and job files must be stored in a designated network file server disk. To make this requirement as flexible as possible for the users, FaxPress can be installed in the following network operating environments:
- Windows 2000/XP/2003
- Novell NetWare 4.x/5.x/6.x
- Linux
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FaxPress Administration
FaxPress comes with a fully functional administration utility – Faxmain. Faxmain can be used as a centralized administration utility to monitor and administrate multiple FaxPress units. The most frequently used administration functions include:
- Adding and deleting users; Setting user properties
- Configuring FaxPress server properties
- Managing outgoing and incoming job queues
- Managing phone books & cover pages
- And more…
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Sending & Receiving Faxes
FaxPress comes with a complete set of Windows based client software utilities and drivers to allow users to easily send and receive faxes from their Windows workstations. Depending on users’ preferences, there are 5 different ways of sending and receiving faxes using FaxPress:
- Sending and receiving faxes using Castelle's full functional software utility – Faxmain
- Sending faxes from within any third party Windows application
- Sending and receiving faxes via the email system, i.e. Outlook, Lotus Notes or GroupWise
- Sending and receiving faxes using your customized application software based on FaxPress APIs
- Sending and receiving faxes using FaxPress Drop Directories
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Personal & Corporate Phone Books
FaxPress supports internal personal and corporate phone books. FaxPress also supports ODBC based external phone books. This allows you to connect to existing databases, and use them as phone books for faxing. ODBC Phone Book support allows the administrator to:
- Specify the external database to use as a FaxPress phone book
- Create mappings between FaxPress phone book fields and the data base fields
- Create different views of the database by specifying filters
The administrator can create any number of corporate phone books. Each Corporate phone book can connect to a different database and contain any number of views (filters) of that database. Views can be created, for example, to show a customer list in a specific state, or country. ODBC Phone Book support provides a sophisticated yet intuitive user interface for the administrator to create all those views.
Once the views are created, they become visible to all the users. The end user can just use the Corporate phone books in exactly the same way they FaxPress native Corporate Phone Books. The end user can also create local ODBC Phone Books from their desktop.
FaxPress ODBC phone books can work with any ODBC compliant database, including:
- Any SQL compliant DBMS servers, such as Microsoft SQL server, Oracle, Informix etc.
- ISAM type databases such as: dBase, Excel, FoxPro, Microsoft Access database
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Personal & Corporate Cover Pages
FaxPress allows users to create their own cover pages while supporting a globally accessible corporate cover page. Cover pages can be created and edited using either Microsoft Word or the FaxPress cover page editor, giving users creative flexibility.
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Email Integration
FaxPress can be integrated with various types of email systems to allow users to send and receive faxes directly from their email applications. FaxPress currently support the following email systems:
- Microsoft Exchange
- IBM Lotus Notes
- Novell GroupWise
- Other SMTP-compatible email systems
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Castelle Internet Faxing (CIF)
CIF is designed to allow FaxPress to transfer fax job files across the Internet. Both the sending and the receiving sides must be using FaxPress, FaxPress Premier or FaxPress Enterprise for CIF to work. CIF can be enabled or disabled by the FaxPress administrator using Faxmain.
On the transmission side, FaxPress uses the routing table to identify the correct destination IP address of the receiving FaxPress. It uses the “fax number” provided by the fax job initiator to locate the matching IP address in the routing table. The routing table is sorted based on fax number. FaxPress should never get the wrong IP address.
If CIF for incoming job is enabled:
When FaxPress receives a CIF job, if the job’s fax number matches its own fax number (according to line settings) then the fax job will be stored in the “assign line to user” incoming fax queue. By default, assign line to user is our “Unaddressed” user. Otherwise, fax job will be put in Outgoing fax queue and fax it out based on the provided fax number in the incoming fax job. If the fax number in the incoming fax job contains T-30 Sub-Addressing (e.g. 408-852-8103#1234##), incoming fax will be routed to the specific user’s mailbox based on the matching mail box ID (e.g. 1234).
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Single Sign On (SSO) For Windows and Novell Users
The Single Sign On feature in FaxPress 8.2/8.25 allows immediate access to FaxPress for Microsoft users, with no separate sign on required. For Novell network users, FaxPress provides NDS Management through Single Sign On (SSO), which enables user authentication and privilege level assignments through your NDS tree.
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Citrix Terminal Server Support
The FaxPress client software can be loaded on the latest version of Citrix XP Terminal Server platform to support published applications for Terminal Server clients.
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PBX Integration
FaxPress has been tested for compatibility with various PBX's to support auto-routing of incoming faxes.
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Fax Approval/Self Approval
Fax Approval provides the administrator with an easy-to-use mechanism for imposing approval requirements prior to processing a Send Fax request and for appointing approval authorities. Approval requirements are based on telephone access: local, long distance or international phone numbers. Approvers are designated by their level of access privileges.
FaxPress has enhanced the approval mechanism to allow users to submit a fax and view the rasterized fax image and then decide if they approve of the appearance and content before allowing the fax to be sent.
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Microsoft Word Mail Merge
- Allows broadcasting of customized documents to multiple recipients.
- Destination specific info (fax numbers, names etc) can come from any data source supported by Word mail merge. There is no need to enter each destination number by hand.
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FaxPress Archive
FaxPress Archive provides five essential archival functions:
- All of your FaxPress servers can be backed up to a single database.
- Archives outgoing faxes, incoming faxes, and transaction logs for all FaxPress users.
- Creates archival transaction information for each fax or log and stores the data in a database.
- Allows users to view, sort, mail, print, and re-send archived faxes directly through Faxmain.
- Optimizes FaxPress performance by moving faxes from FaxPress Queues into the archive database.
Archival configuration parameters for FaxPress users are defined by the FaxPress Administrator through one simple configuration process. The configuration wizard prompts the administrator for the following information:
- Specify type(s) and condition(s) of faxes (or transaction logs) to archive
- Specify the archival frequency and storage format
- Specify type of database to store the archival information ( SQL server or Access)
- Define database housekeeping operations
Two modes are supported: Backup mode and On-line Archive mode. In backup mode the purpose is archiving for off-line, long-term storage with backups done once a day. In on-line archive mode, the faxes are continuously moved into the database and are visible, searchable, and can be filtered by end users through Faxmain.
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Remote Client Software Installation with SMS or Z.E.N. Works
- Desktop PC Clients can be auto-installed under Microsoft SMS.
- Desktop PC Clients can be auto-installed under Novell Z.E.N. Works
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