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FileMaker Server 7: New Features
Make your team more productive than ever!
On August 29, 2005, FileMaker announced the best FileMaker ever: FileMaker 8. We recognize that some customers may need to buy FileMaker 7 products while they make the transition to FileMaker 8, so FileMaker 7 products will be available, direct from FileMaker, until December 30, 2005. See the following information to learn more about FileMaker Server 7, or click to see all the exciting new features in FileMaker Server 8.
Experience high-performance data sharing like never before with these powerful new FileMaker Server 7 features to:
- Increase database performance
- Increase database capacity
- Improve administration
- Enhance security
Increased database performance
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- Perform searches and calculations on the server instead of the client.
- Leverage high-performance hard disk storage systems and multi-CPU servers
- Take advantage of large amounts of RAM using sophisticated caching.
Upgrade your server hardware as your needs grow to improve performance and support additional FileMaker Pro 7 clients.
Increased database capacity
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- Each database can store up to 8 terabytes of information—4,000 times the old limit.
- Host thousands of tables with FileMaker Server 7.
- Add additional servers as your needs grow for expanded capacity.
Combine files from your previous FileMaker 6 solutions into one FileMaker 7 file to take advantage of new levels of scalability, integration and security.
Improved administration
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- Optionally perform maintenance on live databases, including live backups while the file is in use.
- Automate unattended, scheduled backups.
- Audit remote administration through a new Event Log entry that identifies Administrators and their activities.
- Change server settings without restarting the server.
Schedule automated backups for all of your FileMaker databases to take place every evening while your workgroup is away—minimizing downtime and increasing productivity.
More advanced security
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- Reduce the overhead of managing user accounts and passwords using external authentication through industry standards provided by Active Directory or Open Directory.
- Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to secure data transferred between your FileMaker Pro clients and FileMaker Server.
Configure your FileMaker Server to authenticate users against your company's LDAP directory service via Active Directory (Windows) or Open Directory (Mac) so there's no need to recreate account information