Important Information

If you install e-VU Professional (the server component) onto a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 machine you MUST install the following two updates in order for your backup to work:

Windows Feature Pack for Storage 1.0 - English

Image Mastering API v2.0 (IMAPIv2.0) update package

We're sorry, as this seems to have been lost from the current documentation; we'll get to work updating this asap.

A Helping Hand

When things go a little haywire with an application (especially one that you're installing) the easiest option is to throw in the towel and move onto something else - but what if the developer(s) are unaware of the problem?  Sure they can put in a tracking module that will phone home as soon as you turn the app on/run the installer - but that's a sure fire way for someone to say that spyware is involved.

So if you stop and think about it, if you take the time to let the developer(s) know they might have a problem, you'll more often that not find that they're extremely grateful for the heads up; if this doesn't earn you some serious kudos, nothing will!

For us, this information is invaluable - myOfficeFiling runs in parallel to our consultancy so we switch resources between the two businesses as necessary - so having the feedback come straight into the inbox allows us to "see" a broader spectrum of usage scenarios than we otherwise would.

So why the little sermon today? Well, without such a helping hand from a fellow twitter user, the newly released update to e-VU Professional wouldn't have seen the light of day.  This person spent their valuable time working with us while we tinkered with the setup routines to eradicate their immediate problems which in turn has allowed us to roll the updates into the new build and installer.

So there you have it folks, be nice to your developers; it's not that they're rubbish - they might just not know about your particular problem

Registered Charities & Educational Establishments

A bright spark (your blog writer actually) has noted that we used to offer e-VU to registered charities for the princely sum of zero pounds and zero pence; since e-VU has moved over to myOfficeFiling.com this information has been omitted from the site.  After some head scratching, and a quick meeting it was agreed that this was an oversight in the copy and should be amended pretty quickly.  So, if you are a registered charity, then (subject to some T's & C's) you can get our e-VU software for the princely sum of zero pounds and zero pence!

But that's not all; we also have an educational pricing plan which is again missing from the site (it will be there soon enough, the copy needs some work though - hey only one pair of hands here and they're going as fast as possible).  Anyway, the offer to educational establishments is a whopping 65% off the list price of the software, which is a) pretty darn generous and b) also subject to some T's and C's.

To find out more about either of these offers then you can either email our Sales Team or if you'd like to speak to a real live person (and we do have a few) the office number is +441793486668.