File & Print Services for Macs and iPads
Move Digitally. Share Globally.
ExtremeZ-IP is the proven standard and most trusted solution for file and print sharing between Mac desktops and Windows servers, delivering no-compromise access and providing complete platform and application compatibility. Backed by years of engineering and customer-driven enhancements, ExtremeZ-IP is the most compatible and stable Windows-based AFP server solution on the market - the file sharing protocol designed to fully support the Mac experience.ExtremeZ-IP enterprises experience the ability to:
- Provide the same file and print access and resources to Mac users as PC users, simplifying management and consolidating servers
- Eliminate file corruption and incompatibility created by Mac users accessing Windows servers
- Seamlessly integrate Macs with Active Directory and Distributed File System (DFS)
- Increase productivity with improved user integration, accessibility, and system performance
- Elimination of AppleTalk throughout your network infrastructure which can reduce your costs.
- Maintain expected Mac features such as Network Spotlight, full content search, and Time Machine backup
- Ensure Mac clients self-restore previous versions of server-based files, reducing help desk backup restore requests
- The only Windows AFP server that supports enterprise-class single sign-on authentication of Mac clients.
- Eliminate AppleTalk from their networks
- Eliminate incompatibilities that Macs encounter when using traditional Windows SMB files shares
mobileEcho - Unlock The Enterprise Power of iPad
mobilEcho is the industry’s first and only Mobile File Management (MFM) software for enterprise iPad users. mobilEcho enables enterprise IT to provide secure access to enterprise file servers for iPad users, eliminating the need for work-arounds like emailing files to yourself or storing critical enterprise files in unsecure third-party cloud providers.
Configurable and deployable across the enterprise in less than 10 minutes, mobilEcho promotes efficient IT Management while ensuring corporate security and compliance standards are met. Enterprise end-users of mobilEcho can access, browse, search and interact with corporate files as well as cache files for offline access, improving overall mobile worker productivity regardless of job function.
mobilEcho comes complete with the server and the client software required to ensure the management and security of corporate files, and includes the following features:
- Access, browse, preview, cache and search files on a corporate file servers and NAS devices through a familiar intuitive application interface making it simple to use with virtually no end-user learning curve;
- Encrypt and securely transfer files to and on iPad, ensuring corporate assets are not compromised in transit;
- Remotely wipe mobilEcho configuration and resident files in the event of a lost, stolen or compromised device, protecting corporate files; Integrate easily with Active Directory, enforcing access control rights and file permissions;
- Configure and deploy both server and client software in less than 10 minutes ensuring IT can get up and running quickly; and,
- Enforce unique policies based on application requirements, including turning off or on features based on the enterprise’s unique security requirements, including the end-user’s ability to email files, view files in third-party applications and store files on-device.
Resources
- Webinar: Centralized Mac Home Directories on Windows Servers
- Webinar: Integrating the Mac into a Windows Infrastructure - 5 Case Studies
- White Paper: Article 5 - Scripting Automations in Windows for Mac OS X Administrators
- White Paper: Article 2 - Imaging & Patch Management for Mac OS X Clients using Windows Servers
- White Paper: mobilEcho 5 Step Deployment Plan
- Survey: Survey Says! Macs will be 26% of new systems in the Enterprise
- White Paper: The End of Services For Mac (SFM): Evaluating Your Replacement Options
- White Paper: Active Directory Compatibility with ExtremeZ-IP
- White Paper: Maintaining Native Mac File Sharing in an Enterprise Storage Environment
- Data Sheet: Centralized Mac Home Directories with ExtremeZ-IP and Centrify DirectControl
- Survey: Administrators Speak Out About Managing the Mac in a Windows Infrastructure
- Webinar: Snow Leopard Integration in the Enterprise
- Webinar: Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute Uses Multiple EDA Solutions
- White Paper: Article 6 - Leveraging Windows Servers to Bring Sanity to Large Scale iOS Operations
- White Paper: Article 3 - Implementing File & Print Services on Windows Servers for Mac OS X Clients
- White Paper: Article 1 - Mac Home Directories on Windows Servers
- White Paper: Enterprise Security with mobilEcho
- White Paper: The Best of Both Worlds - Sharing Mac Files on Windows Servers
- White Paper: Simplify WAN Service Discovery for Mac Users & Eliminate AppleTalk
- White Paper: Integrating Macs with Microsoft DFS Using ExtremeZ-IP
- Survey: The Mac in the Enterprise: Survey Results 2010
- Data Sheet: Absolute Manage and Group Logic Integration



