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Parallels Plesk 7 for Windows Beta 2
Parallels today announces the availability of Plesk 7 for Windows Beta 2 to the general public. Beta program participants will get a sneak peak of the next release of the world’s most stable, easy-to-use, and feature-rich Windows control panel.
Windows hosting is the fastest growing opportunity in the hosting market. Plesk 7 for Windows will help you manage your existing Windows offerings or help you broaden your services by selling Windows hosting to your customers.
Plesk 7 for Windows offers important new features:
- Robust Microsoft Integration — Native support of Microsoft Technologies: IIS6 in worker process isolation mode, separate application pools for each site, improved security, full support for ASP.NET application deployment.
- Next Generation Interface — Fully reworked Web interface. The same look and feel as Windows XP by default and several more skins available to choose from, including familiar Plesk Classic (2.5) and Plesk 6.5 interfaces.
- Application Vault* — One click application installation. Plesk 7 includes a new customizable repository of Site Applications with the ability to add, deploy, configure, and remove applications to any domain on the system (CMS, Forums, Counters, Chat software).
- AntiSpam* — SpamAssassin Integration. Popular "SpamAssassin" application is used to eliminate most of the SPAM from user’s mailboxes. Plesk 7 has GUI controls for SpamAssassin.
- Antivirus** — Dr. Web Antivirus Integration Plesk 7 supports built-in mail interface to award-winning Dr. Web antivirus engine, which is one of the fastest and most frequently updated products on the market.
Additional features:
- Firewall — Windows 2003 Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) support: allows system administrator to protect servers quickly. Ships enabled by default. Has "Panic" mode when only Plesk web interface is visible outside (to prevent spreading of new worms)
- Auto-updater — "Plesk Update" utility: checks on the internet, downloads and installs updated Plesk software and included third-party components and patches.
- Trouble-Ticketing* — Trouble-Ticketing System: simplifies reselling of services — end-users may send tickets to resellers and server owner.
And more:
- Installer supports components reinstallations and upgrades
- MS-SQL Web Administration Interface**
- Standalone MS-SQL Support (Local and remote)
- Mail Enable Pro Support**
- Webalizer is replaced with AWstats
- Site Builder*
- OsCommerce*
- ColdFusion Management Interface**
- QoS management — Network, CPU, Memory
- Improved Resource Usage Reporting
- Private Folder for Sensitive Data Storage
- @Domain support
- DNS-less site preview
- Domain Aliases
* Optional Add-on features
** Optional Add-on features that require additional vendor’s license.
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