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Falx Sr. 3.0 Omtool, Ltd. 8 Industrial Way Salem NH 63079 Ph: 800-886-7845; Fx. 603-890-6756 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: htt'm:/www.omtool.com
Price: $2495 - 25 users; $4,995 - unlimited users Omtool's Fax Sr. 2.0 was regarded as one of the best enterprise-scale network faxing solutions in the industry. With the recent release of version 3.0, their already impressive management and analysis features have been further refined, and the new Outlook Web View, ActiveXand Java-based Web clients make an in-house server accessible from virtually anywhere. Users can also install clients on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95 and 98 and Macintosh systems. E-mail integration is possible using Exchange, Lotus Notes, SMTP, MS Mail and cc:Mail. Fax Sr.'s installation process and documentation have also been improved from the 2.0 version, and new features like the Microsoft Management Console, ODBC/LDAP integration, fax status/activity monitors and standard (formerly optional) OCR module serve to confirm Fax Sr.'s pinnacle status.
Installation
There are three primary aspects and numerous smaller aspects to installing Fax Sr. 3.0. The first part is installing your fax board or modem; choices include boards from Brooktrout, Dialogic and Natural MicroSystems (NMS), as well as specific modems from Multi-Tech, Zyxel and U.S. Robotics (3Com). We used a 2-port Brooktrout TR-114 board, installed on a Pentium II CPU with 64 MB RAM (64 MB RAM is the minimum; machines also require 20 MB of free disk space, although large organizations would use a dedicated server). Omtool makes the process easier by devoting entire chapters of the installation manual to each of the three fax boards, and they provide graphical driver configuration software based on Brooktrout standard APIs.
Once the board was successfully installed and we were able to send a DOS-level fax from it, we began the Fax Sr. installation. The auto-run CD starts a standard Windows-style installation wizard; the default choice from the main menu is to install the server software. You're prompted to select a default directory, network type (file services, named pipes, TCP/IP or IPX/SPX), board/modem type and other basic information. Restart the computer - it should be running the Windows NT 4.0 operating system with the latest service pack(s) - and, once you're past the various licensing and log-in screens, the server installation is complete.
The third...