We set a high value on making the installation of Lookeen as easy and flexible as possible. This is no problem for single-user-installations: You run the setup.exe, choose a path and after that Lookeen will already be installed.
When you run Outlook after that, the Lookeen-Wizard will help you to add the desired mailboxes to the index and then you will already be able to use Lookeen on your workstation.

Above that Lookeen helps your company to fight the constantly increasing flood of emails.

For the installation within a company’s environment (regardless whether it concerns 20 or 20,000 workstations), flexibility is a decisive factor. In this case, the introduction of a fundamental tool like Lookeen naturally has to be planned well and in a structured way.
The system administrator has to find out which network resources are required for that and which settings or rather restrictions have to be made for the individual users.

The administrator regulates these settings and restrictions with the help of the so-called “Group Policies” (“GPOs” in short).

These group policies are totally indispensable for the integration in a company’s environment.

Sadly not all programmes and tools support group policies. This is why the most successful website in the field of group policies (www.gruppenrichtlinien.de) introduced the TROST-prize („Tja, Rein Optisch Schönes Tool“-prize; which means a prize for a tool which only seems to be good but it is not if you look at it more closely): A “prize” for programmes, which do not function with restricted user authorisations and do not support GPOs.
Therefore we have known from the beginning: In order to make it possible to “roll-out” Lookeen companywide, Lookeen group policies have to be developed. This amount of work should not be underestimated.

The required efforts and especially the error sources caused in a company without group policies are simply unacceptable.

The installation itself is only a part of the integration (of the roll-out) in a company. Afterwards the workstations have to be set up in a personnel-suitable way.

Assuming that you have just installed the software on 500 workstations, hopefully without any problems, the software is not just yet ready to be used only because the installation has been completed. To be honest: Do you want to make sure afterwards that the new software works properly and can be used efficiently when 500 employees with completely different backgrounds and expertise use it?

The administrator is able to control for example the following points with the help of GPOs:

• The including of shared index sources
• The periods of times during which Lookeen indexes the data stock
• The adding of outlook archives, local folders and network folders
• The handling of automatic updates

We, the Lookeen-team, have been engaged in the development of GPOs for a long time and in an extensive way. However, it was worth the time and efforts. Thus this precisely makes Lookeen today so desirable and comfortable for a lot of companies and their system administrators, regarding the central controlling.

At this point we would like to thank our customers very much! We have been actively supported by you with ideas and technical implementations since the initial stage of the GPOs.
Eventually it was one of our long-time partners, who provided us with an administrative template (ADM-File).

Down to the present day, the Lookeen GPOs have proved themselves in a multitude of companies and have been continuously enhanced.

Lookeen has been supporting the feature group policies since version 1.3 – whereas by now altogether more than 50 GPOs setting options exist, like e.g. suppression of the wizard, explicit control regarding the different exchange modes, options adjustable ON/OFF, shared index path and many more…

If you also plan to use Lookeen in your company or if you have questions regarding group policies or ADM-files, please send us an email to info@lookeen.com.

We, the Lookeen-team, would like to thank all for the overwhelming participation in our Microsoft Sharepoint-survey. Altogether, several hundreds of companies took part in our survey. We were especially very impressed by the fact that a very big number of the respondents took the time to express their wishes and ideas freely. We were able to take up a lot of ideas, improvement suggestions and inspiration from the analyses. The survey confirmed our assumption about the indexing of Sharepoint-servers being an interesting topic for companies. This was reflected in the fact that a lot of companies agreed to take part in the beta phase.

Other interesting key data of the analysis:

• About 15% of the companies which do not use Microsoft Sharepoint so far are planning the introduction of Microsoft Sharepoint
• 60% of all users wish for a functionality with which email contents can be easily uploaded to the Microsoft Sharepoint server.
• More than 60% of the participants would prefer to simply add the Microsoft Sharepoint server as an additional index source.

Naturally we will inform you soon about the introduction date of the Lookeen Microsoft Sharepoint edition. Do you have questions about Microsoft Sharepoint or would you also like to apply for the beta test phase? Then simply send us an email to info@lookeen.net – keyword: „Sharepoint“.