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• MailEssentials Multi-Server Synchronization

  Overview This article provides information for clients who are considering setting up a multi-server environment for GFI MailEssentials. In a Multi-Server environment, all GFI MailEssentials installat...

• Setting up Multi-Server in GFI MailEssentials

  Overview Multi-server is an important feature in GFI MailEssentials. This feature enables communication between different GFI MailEssentials servers so that some configuration data can be shared. For ...

• Configuring the Master Server

  Overview The master server is the server that is in charge of synchronizing the data between all the GFI MailEssentials instances within the multi-server network. You can only have a single master ser...

• Configuring a Slave Server

  Overview A slave server is a server that is part of the GFI MailEssentials multi-server environment. Slave servers get the synchronized configuration settings from the master server and other peers in...

• Synchronizing MailEssentials Multi-Server Settings

  Overview GFI MailEssentials provides you with the facility to configure which settings to synchronize between all the servers in a Multi-Server network. Resolution On the machine configured as the Mas...

• The Slave in a Multi-Server setup cannot connect to the Master when the communication ports are used by another process

  Answer PROBLEM The Slave cannot connect to the Master when the communication port is used by another process, program or service. The log file 'CentralizationConfiguration.log' reads:   warning,Centra...

• The Quarantine transfers time out and stop synchronising on the client servers of a multi install (slaves)

  Versions / Builds AffectedGFI MailEssentials 2015 StatusResolved Problem SummaryThe Quarantine transfers time out on the slave servers of a multi install on slow networks and/or when large emails are ...

• The Multi-Server synchronisation is failing because of an server error "FAILED: - System.ServiceModel.ProtocolException: The content type text/html of the response message does not match the content type of the binding (text/xml; charset=utf-8)."

  Versions / Builds AffectedGFI MailEssentials 2015 StatusResolved Problem SummarySynchronization is failing from the slave. TT / JIRAID2495 How to IdentifyThe following error is thrown in the logging. ...

• The Multi-Server fails: User is not an admin!

  Versions / Builds AffectedGFI MailEssentials 2015 StatusResolved Problem SummaryThe Multi-Server is failing, showing the Master server offline. TT / JIRAID2694 How to IdentifyThe Attendant\debuglogs\C...

• Suggested upgrade path to GFI MailEssentials multi server network for existing installs

  AnswerIf you have multiple email servers with GFI MailEssentials 2014 R2 or previous, then you can benefit from the new multi-server feature introduced in GFI MailEssentials 2015. This article will ex...