Looking for your feedback on how you use the site

[dkelly]

Please take the time to read my blog post at http://www.scalix.com/blog and come back to us with your comments.

We want to make sure we're communicating effectively but can't do that unless you tell us what works and what doesn't.

Cheers

Dave

[kanderson]

What if SAC checked for an update and had a POP up when that update occurred. The admin could choose to say "Don't notify me again for this release", and the nagging would stop until the next rev was released. Similar to AV update warnings.

Perhaps not even a popup, but just that the Management Console would have a "home" screen, where such notices would be listed. The detail in them could be fed from a Scalix HTTP server, cached on the Scalix server so that it wasn't always downloading the same thing. From there, what would be really great would be for there to be a button that would wget the software directly to the server in the background and untar it.

This would have a few advantages, as I see it. Right now, the person receiving the upgrade notifications is often a different person from the one doing the admin work. I imagine that Scalix would spend a fair amount of time keeping the mailout list correct as staff changes are made at client companies. By putting the upgrade notices in the Management, people doing the work will know that they've been released regardless of staff change or anything else.

You could also have a MOTD popup for users signing in with Admin capabilities via MAPI. Again, once. I think it's safe to assume most admins set give themselves admin capabilities, whereas most users don't have it. Or deliver it directly to their email box.

Just thinking out loud...

[florian]

Hi Kevin,

while I think the inclusion of breaking news and update information on a type of Dashboard is a good thing, I'm not totally sure about your last point.

In my experience, most admins don't give there standard user account the admin rights. The main reason is that this also gives you extended privileges in the mail client - i.e. you have full read/write access to the public folder tree at the very minimum. For the very same reason people like to use a dedicated admin account on Windows so that they don't accidentally touch files they don't want to harm, people would do the same in Scalix, wouldn't they?

Florian.

[kanderson]

:)

Not in my experience. Not that I agree with it, or recommend it, but they don't. I assume it's a Windows vs *nix cultural thing. One groups assigns everyone Admin rights so that the OS needs annoying security, the other group grew up with something other than Windows. :)

But if it wasn't for the first group, humor like this wouldn't exist:

http://images.apple.com/movies/us/apple ... 80x376.mov

Ultimately, it doesn't defeat my suggestion though. If Joe Admin has himself set as Full Administrator, he'll get the MOTD popups. If he isn't a full Admin, he'll see those popups when he signs in as sxadmin (or whoever).

Kev.